John Glenn died at 95 Thursday ... mission to the American identity at the time was crucial: the so-called “Space Race” seemed to be a matter of life and death and the unflappable, Midwestern ...

Even over the babel of huge crowds in the National Air and Space Museum I hear an irritating ... and his training suit, alongside John Glenn's actual spacesuit. The suits are the same size ...

Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight in March. Blue Origin is also set to send Katy Perry into space aboard its ...

John Glenn mused about the word, which he evidently hadn’t used before joining the space program. “Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch.’ Literally ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

The John and Annie Glenn Museum opens to the public for the 2024 season on Wednesday, May 1. It traces the formative years of ...

The group of six women that includes CBS host Gayle King and pop star Katy Perry are set to make history in a Blue Origin launch next week.

November: The Space Task Group is renamed the Manned Spacecraft Center, to be relocated to Houston, Texas. February 20: John Glenn orbits the Earth three times, becoming the first American in orbit.