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 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 ...

Astronaut John Glenn — who was one of NASA's original Mercury Seven — was the first American to orbit Earth. He flew the mission in just under five hours, circling the globe three times in a ...

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 ...

It's been 59 years since seven men were presented to the world as NASA's first-ever astronaut class. The men, called the Original Seven, became overnight sensations in the United States.

John Glenn was a NASA astronaut who, in 1962, made history by becoming the first American to orbit Earth. He was one of the "Mercury 7," NASA's first astronaut class.Glenn was a vital part of the ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...