On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two Soviets – Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov – had previously orbited Earth, but ...

John Glenn, Marine Corps combat pilot, pioneer of human exploration and later a longtime United States senator, became the first American to orbit the Earth on this day in history, Feb. 20, 1962.

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 ...

John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of… ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WABC) -- John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday ...

(Inside Science) — Sixty years ago this past Sunday, on Feb. 20, 1962, American astronaut John Glenn took off from Cape Canaveral on Florida’s eastern coast on a mission that marked a turning point in ...

The United States sent its own man into space in 1962. CT published a 5,000-word article, “John H. Glenn: An Astronaut and His Faith.” When the Friendship 7 space capsule landed with a splash and a ...

With millions of visitors each year, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, located north of downtown Houston, Texas, is among the United States’ busiest aviation hubs. And in 1998, it brought together ...

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 ...