Even though friendship seven sits only *** few blocks from his Senate office, John Glenn rarely comes by. But those memories of 30 years ago are crystal clear when you really realize that this is, it ...

On February 20, 1962, NASA launched an astronaut into orbit around the Earth for the first time. John Glenn was the third American to launch into space and the third human to orbit Earth. Two Soviet ...

In this 1962 image taken from a Kodachrome slide, we see Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn and his wife, Annie, riding in a Lincoln Continental on Main Street in downtown Houston. The two were taking ...

Those who were kids in 1998 can probably remember a space flight by astronaut John Glenn. Likewise, kids in 1962 can also remember a space flight — by the same John Glenn. The flight 25 years ago got ...

Half a century ago, John Glenn went out for a pack of gum. That’s the way he described it, anyway. “Well, I’m going down to the corner to buy some chewing gum,” he told his wife Annie, just as he told ...

When John Glenn died in December 2016, more than a half-century had passed since his 1962 orbit around Earth. Two years earlier, Glenn and the other Mercury Seven astronauts trained at Langley ...

This week marks the 62nd anniversary of John Glenn becoming the first American to go into orbit. John Glenn grew up only two hours outside of Pittsburgh in Cambridge, Ohio. He orbited Earth three ...