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 ...

He considers the U.S. space effort the tortoise to Russia ... Yardley worked closely with John Glenn to perfect the capsule, incorporating many of Glenn’s suggestions. The two became firm ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...