John Glenn, the legendary NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator, made history not just once but twice, first becoming the first American to orbit Earth before making a significant return to space aboard the ...
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Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn's first trip to space
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Zero G and I feel fine," U.S. astronaut John Glenn said during his historic voyage to space in 1962. Glenn, a small-town Ohio boy ...
American astronaut John Glenn becomes the oldest person in space during the STS-95 mission on board the shuttle Discovery, 1998. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images) 10/29/98 The space shuttle ...
Before becoming an astronaut, John Glenn was a decorated Marine Corps pilot who set a transcontinental speed record. After his NASA career, Glenn served 24 years as a U.S. senator for Ohio and briefly ...
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