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 ...

Perhaps one of these engineers later joined NASA and began using glitch around a freckle-faced aviator from New Concord, Ohio: In Into Orbit, a1962 book by the Mercury Seven, John Glenn mused ...

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 ...

When growing up as a child, many now have the dream of becoming an astronaut in the future. Few grow up to realise that dream due to various reasons. If this is the case now, when space ...