Glenn's flight ushered in a new era for space travel. \r John Glenn, America's first astronaut to orbit Earth, launched aboard his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. At the end of the ...

This spacesuit was worn by John Glenn during the first orbital flight of a U.S. astronaut. The flight took place on February 20, 1962 and lasted for 4 hours and 55 minutes, during which time he ...

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These instrument-panel replacement bulbs were carried as part of the cockpit equipment of Friendship 7, the Mercury capsule in which John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn's ...

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 ...

John Glenn's Garrett Buzzard (9) rings the bell to celebrate their win over Garber after a football game at John Glenn High ...

Slotnik Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration. By Mark Atwood Lawrence Being an ...

(WNDU) - John Glenn is heading into this 2024 season focused ... They’re coming off a 7-5 year, but they enter the new ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A map is out that shows what John Glenn International Airport will look like once a $2 billion ...

NASA administrator Daniel Goldin (right) and John Glenn answer questions during the January 16, 1998 press conference regarding Glenn's return to space. ATLANTA (CNN) -- Not everyone is enchanted ...

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