John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

Morse prevailed, but the shoot was hastily arranged before Mercury’s custom-made aluminized nylon boots were ready for Deke Slayton and John Glenn (front row, middle). So someone at NASA (or ...

John Glenn died at 95 Thursday ... to become the so-called “Mercury Seven,” America’s first astronauts. (Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Deke ...

and the Mercury 7 instantly became national heroes. In 1961, Al Shepard became the first American to fly to space, followed by Gus Grissom. Then in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to ...

On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...

Hundreds of space artifacts are set to return to or debut on display with the opening of five reimagined galleries at the ...