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 ...

(WHSV) - Over 60 years ago on Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. In the middle of the United ...

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.

On February 23, 1962, just three days after making history, astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. was honored by President John F. Kennedy at Hangar S in Cape Canaveral.

On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two ...

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 ...

“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 ...