Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. dons his silver Mercury pressure suit in preparation for launch. On February 20, 1962 Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket and became the ...

John Glenn, who captured the nation’s attention ... Glenn, in his silver astronaut suit, lifted the hopes of a nation on his shining shoulders. When he emerged smiling from his Friendship ...

During the now­familiar routine of physical exams, elec­trode taping, and suiting-up, Glenn was i11 a bantering mood ("How about you getting into this suit, Deke?"). Douglas gave Glenn a blood ...

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., NASA flight surgeon William Douglas and equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt leave crew quarters prior to the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. Glenn is in his pressure suit ...

And the whole picture, the guy in the space suit climbing out of Friendship ... or the future of the space program. "When Sen. John Glenn, an astronaut-senator, speaks to it, I think the whole ...

"Look up 'astronaut' in the dictionary and you might find a photo of John Glenn," space historian Robert Pearlman, who runs the website collectSPACE.com, told Mashable. "A record-setting aviator ...

Some of my favorite public figures are mediocre entertainers. Legendary NASA astronaut John Glenn would fit in that category. The first American to orbit the earth and a decorated U.S. Marine ...

When I wrote my book on the astronaut wives ... and cigarettes, Glenn opted for oxygen, regularly donning his gray sweat suit and heading out for a jog. Every weekend, John drove home to Annie ...

When John Glenn launched on the United ... had a laundry list of worries, from where Glenn's spacecraft would touch down to whether or not the astronaut's eyes would function properly in microgravity.

John Glenn, who captured the nation’s attention ... Mr. Glenn, in his silver astronaut suit, lifted the hopes of a nation on his shining shoulders. When he emerged smiling from his Friendship ...