John Glenn really wanted to be the first man ... for all seven astronauts to make the same mission before the first orbital flight. But with pressure mounting to keep pace with the Soviets and ...

Thus, astronaut John Glenn’s three orbits of Earth ... recording device from the Mercury capsule in which Glenn made his orbital flight. Veteran aerospace journalist and Perth native Geoffrey ...

John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962. On the 40th anniversary of his Mercury flight… read more John Glenn became the first American astronaut to ...

Kennedy honored astronaut John Glenn at the NASA facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, following the historical first crewed orbital flight for the U.S. Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

Just shy of 63 years after John ... the first American to orbit the Earth, Blue Origin’s New Glenn reusable rocket has managed to put a payload into a stable orbit on its very first flight ...

New Glenn, its biggest rocket yet, will actually get into orbit if everything goes according to plan on its maiden flight. Named after the first American to orbit the Earth, NASA astronaut John ...

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. In a flight lasting just under five hours, he orbit… read more On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became ...

Glenn Museum U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard was the first American in space with a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961, three weeks after Gagarin's first-of-its-kind journey. President John F.

When John Glenn launched on the United States' first orbital spaceflight 50 years ago ... at a NASA event commemorating Glenn's flight. "We were considered guilty of being unable to fly in space ...

John Glenn was "deeply touched" that Blue ... a month after Glenn's death that SpaceX followed with the first orbital launch of a "flight proven" Falcon 9 rocket. Now, New Glenn is ready to ...