John Glenn died at 95 Thursday, and his importance to NASA and the U.S. space program cannot be overstated ... have to take manual control of his capsule when the systems went south at one point ...

Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital mission, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, on February 20 ...

(AP) — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for ... starting with John Glenn when he became the first American ...

From the moment he stepped out of his capsule onto the deck ... During the inspection, Mrs. John Glenn Sr. expressed some motherly concern over the lack of space in a spaceship: “I’d think ...

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the flight – and has made it available to share ...