(Personally, I find the Mercury suit worn by John Glenn to be the best-looking space suit of all.) The basic thing to remember is that NASA’s EMU is built for long-duration space walks ...

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 ...

a1962 book by the Mercury Seven, 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 ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury ... John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard. However, Deke Slayton was dropped due to a heart problem, although he continued to contribute to the ...

NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They were all ...