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 ...

Three times during the space race, NASA nearly lost a capsule and its crew. The first time was during America’s first orbital mission, John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, on February 20 ...

Even over the babel of huge crowds in the National Air and Space Museum I hear an irritating ... and his training suit, alongside John Glenn's actual spacesuit. The suits are the same size ...

John Glenn mused about the word, which he evidently hadn’t used before joining the space program. “Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ‘glitch.’ Literally ...

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 ...

launched its massive New Glenn rocket into orbit for the first time early Thursday, marking a new step in the commercial space race. The rocket, whose inaugural mission had been delayed by several ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) --U.S. space pioneer John Glenn said on Thursday that President George W. Bush's space exploration plan "pulls the rug out from under our scientists" and might ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former astronaut John Glenn called space tourist Dennis Tito's flight to the international space station a "misuse" of the multibillion-dollar facility. "I don't blame him for ...

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.