Remembering John Glenn’s historic return to space John Glenn’s first spaceflight made him a legend in 1962. And nearly four decades later, his last spaceflight at age 77 made him a pioneer.

Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space says it’s won the go-ahead to take over the Florida launch complex where John Glenn began the trip that made him the first American in orbit in 1962.

On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member John Glenn set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7 ...

Six decades ago, NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 6 mission came perilously close to disaster. It all ended triumphantly however and John Glenn’s three Earth orbits in his tiny Mercury Friendship 7 ...

The astronaut trained three years for this space flight, a top Kennedy priority, most of it at NASA's center in Hampton. John Glenn's personal notes are part of the material author Jeff Shesol ...

MERCURY RISING. John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War. By Jeff Shesol. Hyperbole shrouds few topics in history so much as the human encounter with outer space.

Twenty years ago this month and 36 years after that first flight, U.S. senator John Glenn once again donned a spacesuit and soared into orbit. As before, on October 29, 1998, Americans were laser ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. See behind-the-scenes shots of his historic flight and the training he underwent to prepare for it.

Glenn made history in 1962 when he soared into orbit aboard Friendship 7, his one-man Mercury capsule. He returned to space in 1998 aboard shuttle Discovery, at age 77, right before space station ...

He was a part of the first group of astronauts drafted by NASA in 1959. Dubbed the Mercury Seven, Glenn was one of the seven men sent into space via the Mercury spacecraft.

John Glenn's trailblazing legacy took flight Tuesday as a cargo ship bearing his name rocketed toward the International Space Station.An Atlas rocket provided the late morning lift to orbit, just ...

JOHN GLENN, 77 Photographed in Building 9, Johnson Space Center, in Houston, Texas, on July 2, 1998. He became an icon at 40, the first American to orbit Earth.