Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new name for John Lewis-class fleet oiler USNS Harvey Milk (TAO-206) in a video message posted on the social media site X Friday morning.

The US Navy has officially changed the name of its ship honoring slain gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in commemoration of the WWII Medal of Honor recipient.

Glenn told a WTAE reporter in 1992 that he still didn't know why he had been picked to be the first American to orbit Earth.

Glenn told a WTAE reporter in 1992 that he still didn't know why he had been picked to be the first American to orbit Earth.

Thirty-six years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth, John Glenn returned to space at age 77.

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The Navy has taken delivery of the first John Lewis-class fleet oiler built at the NASSCO shipyard in Barrio Logan. The USNS John Lewis, a 746-foot-long vessel capable of carrying thousands of ...

John Herchel Glenn was born in July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio to John Sr. and Clara Teresa Glenn. His father, a Great War veteran, took John on his first aircraft ride when he was only 8 years ...

The 785-foot USNS John Glenn is a Mobile Landing Platform ship — a new type of amphibious staging and assault vessel. It's the second one ordered by the Navy to quickly transport troops and ...

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 ...

It all ended triumphantly however and John Glenn’s three Earth orbits in his tiny Mercury Friendship 7 capsule put NASA back in the space race against the Soviets.

The ship did more than just deliver fuel and replenish though, Lenthall also served as an ambassador during Task Force 65’s Aegean Sea and Black Sea operations.