John Glenn, the first American to fly into orbit around the planet Earth and later a US senator for 24 years, died Thursday at a cancer hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95 and the last of the ...

And the one with whom it most fell in love was John Glenn. Fifty years ago, on Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn squeezed into his Friendship 7 capsule, circled the earth three times in five hours and became a ...

John Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95, was the last surviving member of the “magnificent” Mercury Seven, the astronauts who proved that America really could make it to space.

John H. Glenn Jr. (1921-2016): John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on Feb. 20, 1962, aboard Friendship 7 launched from Cape Canaveral.He completed three orbits around the Earth ...

Sunday marks 60 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.. On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

The first seven astronauts NASA ever had, known as the Original Seven were selected and announced to the country on April 9, 1959. Back row: Astronauts Shepard, Grissom, Cooper. Front row: Schirra ...

PHOTOS: The life and career of John Glenn. Astronaut John Glenn, Jr. is loaded into the Friendship 7 capsule in preparation for flight on the Mercury Titan rocket February 20, 1962.

In the opening sequence set in 1961, Mercury astronauts John Glenn (a solid Patrick J. Adams) and Alan Shepard (Jake McDorman, the standout of the series) engage in a competitive predawn run and ...

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 1962 file photo, astronaut John Glenn and President John F. Kennedy inspect the Friendship 7, the Mercury capsule in which Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

Sixty years ago, on Feb. 20, 1962, John Herschel Glenn Jr. climbed into the cramped confines of a Mercury space capsule, to become the third American in space, and the first to orbit the Earth. It … ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959 ... John Glenn, meanwhile, was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, and later became a senator.