On February 20, 1962, NASA launched an astronaut into orbit around the Earth for the first time. John Glenn was the third ...

(WHSV) - Over 60 years ago on Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. In the middle of the United States’ space race with the Soviet Union, John Herschel Glenn, Jr., a ...

When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

But, well before the moon landing, back in 1962, an astronaut called John Glenn got to fly up to space in a rocket, where he saw something that 'he'd never seen anything like' before in his life.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible," John Herschel Glenn Jr said after ...

People across the world are reacting to the death of the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, John Glenn. "Godspeed, John Glenn," NASA wrote in a tweet. "Today, the people of Ohio remember a ...

Monumentally important, this is the first image of an American astronaut in space. In the Project Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.

On Feb 20, John Glenn orbited Earth aboard Friendship 7, marking a key space race milestone. Also noted: UK ends India rule, Caroline Mikkelsen in Antarctica, and Sidney ...