NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth.

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin launched its New Glenn rocket into orbit early Thursday, in a critical milestone that comes some 25 years after the billionaire founded the company with the goal of ...

The launch was picture perfect. Not *** single problem after *** 4.5 minute ride, John Glenn was going 17,500 miles an hour and was the first American in orbit on orbit three though trouble ...

The crew spent the next nine days in orbit carrying out a slew of ... making him the first nonagenarian spaceman. John Glenn’s age-defying spaceflight just 25 years ago, as well as the more ...

NASA/Andy Saunders; Digital Source: Stephen Slater Sunday marks 60 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member ...

In 1862, William Wallace Lincoln, the 11-year-old son of President Abraham Lincoln and first lady Mary Todd Lincoln ... Former senator and astronaut John Glenn celebrated the 50th anniversary ...

John Herschel Glenn was the third American in space, after Alan Shepard and Virgin Grissom, but the first to orbit the Earth - circling the planet three times. His flight, known as Friendship ...

Annie Glenn, widow of the late NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn — the first American to orbit the Earth — has died, NASA announced yesterday. She was 100. "We are deeply saddened by ...

Her late husband of 73 years, John Glenn, was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. He was one of the famed Mercury Seven astronauts immortalized in Tom Wolfe's ...

NASM Before astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, scientists thought a weightless man might not be able to swallow. They worried that his eyeballs might change ...