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.

Astronaut John Glenn once left NASA concerned after describing a sight 'he'd never seen anything like' while in space ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.