On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn ...

An Ohio State official says former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has been hospitalized for more than a week. Hank Wilson with Ohio State University's John Glenn College of Public Affairs said ...

Over the long arc of John Glenn’s life, it proved impossible to ever ask him to do something for his country. No matter the mission, no matter the risk, he had already stepped forward, his hand raised ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn was the ultimate all-American hero. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, a war hero fighter pilot, a record-setting test pilot, a longtime senator, a presidential ...

People across the world are reacting to the death of the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, John Glenn. "Godspeed, John Glenn," NASA wrote in a tweet. "Today, the people of Ohio remember a ...

Monumentally important, this is the first image of an American astronaut in space. In the Project Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Annie Glenn, the widow of former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn, has died at the age of 100. The Associated Press and The Columbus Dispatch confirmed that Glenn passed away ...