Christopher Browne, John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum Curators of the five new exhibitions ...

600 Jefferson Dr. S.W. (National Mall) Washington, D.C.

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...

WASHINGTON — John Glenn, who captured the nation’s attention in 1962 as the first American to orbit the Earth during a tense time when the United States sought supremacy over the Soviet Union ...

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.

Sunday marks 60 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.. On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury ...

376869 01: Astronaut John Glenn, Jr. is loaded into the Friendship 7 capsule in preparation for ...More flight on the Mercury Titan rocket February 20, 1962. Getty Images. Sixty years hence, it ...

Glenn, alone in his Mercury capsule in 1962. Friendship 7 was flying with its nose pitched 34 degrees below the horizon, so that ... “Welcome to space, John Glenn! ...

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.

Astronaut John Glenn is seen with his Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., Feb. 20, 1962 ready for the flight which made him the first American to orbit the ...

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 ...