people into space. The New Glenn is named after John Glenn, the first NASA astronaut to enter the Earth’s orbit. Its first stage is powered by seven of Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engines ...

Yuri Gagarin's ID card as Cosmonaut No. 01, and his training suit, alongside John Glenn's actual spacesuit ... used in preparation for the first space walk in 1965. "In the vacuum of space ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

John Glenn recalled his own Mercury and shuttle flights and discussed the future of U.S. efforts in space with CNN's Miles O'Brien. Following are some of his comments. O'BRIEN: John Glenn ...

Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, said New Glenn (named after astronaut John Glenn) will return to flight spring ...

"Guests get to see the place in which John’s dreams of aviation were born." Those dreams allowed Glenn to boldly go where no American had gone before: into space. He enlisted in the Marine Corps ...