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 States’ space race with the Soviet Union, John Herschel Glenn, Jr., a ...

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 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 ...

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.

“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 ...