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 ...

NASA introduced its first group of astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, to the nation and the world. The event took place in the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House on Lafayette Square in Washington, ...

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 ...

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.