When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

But, well before the moon landing, back in 1962, an astronaut called John Glenn got to fly up to space in a rocket, where he saw something that 'he'd never seen anything like' before in his life.

On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two Soviets – Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov – had previously orbited Earth, but ...

Sitting beside his Friendship 7 capsule, astronaut John Glenn, pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, is suited up, preparing for the launch. Artist Cecilia Bibby, who painted the Friendship 7 ...

Astronaut John Glenn once left NASA concerned after describing a sight 'he'd never seen anything like' while in space ...

On February 23, 1962, just three days after making history, astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. was honored by President John F. Kennedy at Hangar S in Cape Canaveral.

“To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible," John Herschel Glenn Jr said after ...