On April 9, 1959, these seven astronauts became our heroes. It turned out they had the "right stuff." ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS • John Glenn not only circled the Earth in a Mercury capsule, he and the other Friendship 7 astronauts greatly influenced its design. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once 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.

On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduced its first group of astronauts to the ...

In 1959, having determined that military test pilots would make the best astronauts, NASA began screening the records of 508 ...

One of the first and extremely rare full-color photographs taken by John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the first human to capture still photographs from space. Overwhelmed by the ...