(Personally, I find the Mercury suit worn by John Glenn to be the best-looking space ... it’s there to make sure the astronaut doesn’t get punctured by micrometeoroids or space debris.

Glenn as an astronaut-in-training ... a1962 book by the Mercury Seven, John Glenn mused about the word, which he evidently hadn’t used before joining the space program.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) --U.S. space pioneer John Glenn said ... put astronauts on Mars. Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio and the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth ...