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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Space Race of the 1960s was a monumental period ... they envision astronauts like John Glenn and Neil Armstrong, but behind every successful launch were the unsung heroes who worked tirelessly ...

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Jan. 16.

Two of the world's richest and most powerful men have launched two of the world's largest rockets this week in an escalation of their corporate space race ... its New Glenn rocket from Florida ...

Founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, the company has been a key player in the private space race ... Glenn is able to carry large and heavy payloads including satellites into space. Named after John ...