Glenn became first American to orbit Earth Feb. 20, 1962. Feb. 16, 2012 — -- The world was such a scary place in 1962 that there were actually Americans who volunteered to leave it. The Cold War ...

ST. LOUIS • John Glenn not only circled the Earth in a Mercury capsule, he and the other Friendship 7 astronauts greatly influenced its design. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight. The first American to ...

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 ...

The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station will launch under the name of the first American to orbit Earth, lifting off atop a modern version of the rocket on ...

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on ...

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(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. March 1942-Enlists in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and upon completing flight ...