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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch Alliance and the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn, the Space Force has ... leak in the Starliner capsule further delayed it ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft successfully simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a ... Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, the New ...

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Closer to the ground, the Kansas-born airman even had the backing of then-President John Kennedy ... to the edge of space from west Texas aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule in May ...

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Nasa astronaut John Glenn sits next to the Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preparations for his flight which made him the first American to orbit the ...