The first American to orbit the Earth landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean on 20 February 1962. Marine Lieutenant John Glenn, 40, travelled about 81,000 miles (more than 130,000km) as he circled ...

By Neil Genzlinger John Glenn, a symbol of the space age as the first American to orbit Earth, sat down with John Schwartz in 2012 — the 50th anniversary of his flight — to talk about making ...

John Glenn a Marine Corps pilot, becomes the first American to orbit the earth. Glenn's mode of transportation is the Mercury capsule, "Friendship 7". The longest non-stop flight ever completed ...

This week marks 25 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn ... the oldest person to orbit the Earth.… Glenn was flown on STS-95, nearly 37 years after becoming the first American to orbit the ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Ahead of Glenn’s spaceflight, Panorama was in Cocoa Beach, to gauge the ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. John Glenn: A Life of Service ... From war pilot, to the first American to orbit the Earth to his days in the Senate ...

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, will discuss juvenile delinquency at an Educational School colloquium here this summer. Glenn, who resigned from the Marine Corps last year to ...

The Black women hired worked in a segregated unit of female mathematicians at what is now NASA's Langley Research Center in ...

Blue Origin will attempt to land the first stage of their New Glenn rocket on its maiden flight, which is now set for later ...