News of the death of famed American astronaut John Glenn has brought back a flood of nostalgia for the early days of NASA manned spaceflight. The 95-year-old ex-astronaut and U.S. senator was the ...

Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn has died at the age of 95. Hank Wilson with the John Glenn School of Public Affairs says Glenn died Thursday afternoon at the James Cancer Hospital in ...

Solving the mystery of John Glenn’s “fireflies” would have to wait until the next American, Scott Carpenter, sailed into Earth orbit.

First American to orbit Earth, then senator, later flew on space shuttle. — -- John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth and a legendary figure in the American space flight ...

Subsequent Mercury flights got to the bottom of the phenomenon: Glenn’s “fireflies” were, in fact, tiny ice crystals forming on the outside of the capsule and then floating free.

UFO hunters believe this month's reappearance of ‘fireflies' on NASA Helioviewer footage - a phenomena first reported by astronaut John Glenn in 1962 - is actually evidence of alien life.

Astronaut John Glenn relaxes aboard the USS Noa after being recovered from the Atlantic near Grand Turk Island following Glenn's first orbit around the Earth on February, 20, 1962.

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Fifty years ago, John H. Glenn Jr., strapped into a tiny Mercury capsule known as Friendship 7 and hurtled into orbit, taking America’s space-age dreams along with him ...

Astronaut John Glenn died on Dec. 8 at 95. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. Browse his LIFE magazine covers here.