CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury reunited Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of John Glenn’s orbital flight, visiting the old launch pad and meeting the ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla., Feb. 20 – Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., crying “Boy, that was a real fireball!” today rode his fiery Mercury spacecraft screaming back through the atmosphere in a ...

This Feb. 20, 1962 photo made available by NASA shows astronaut John Glenn during his space flight in the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft, weightless and traveling at 17,500 mph. The image was ...

(WHTM) — On Feb. 20, 1962, John Herschel Glenn Jr. climbed into ... (The number 7 was incorporated into the names of all the manned Mercury spacecraft; Glenn named his spacecraft Friendship ...

50th anniversary of first American astronaut to orbit Earth. Feb. 20, 2012 — -- For John Glenn, who 50 years ago became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth in his Friendship 7 Mercury ...

It found seven, the original Mercury astronauts. And the one with whom it most fell in love was John Glenn ... they also planned to return. Glenn named his spacecraft Friendship 7, honoring ...

Reflected in his chest mirror is the spacecraft from which he has just emerged. Feb. 23, 1962: Astronaut John Glenn, left, and President John F. Kennedy, center, inspect the Friendship 7 Mercury ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn set out on NASA's three ... member set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7. New images released ...

Everyone knows John Glenn. He went to space, became a senator and went to space again. But did you today today marks 50 years since the first time he left Earth? Glenn and fellow astronauts shot into ...

The astronaut was John Glenn, whom the author Tom Wolfe has called “the last true national hero America has ever had.” Squeezed into the cockpit of a Mercury spacecraft called Friendship 7 ...

Astronaut John Glenn and technicians inspect artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft. John Glenn nicknamed his capsule "Friendship 7". On February 20, 1962 astronaut ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — John Glenn ... that is). Glenn said he was eager to get back into space after his 1962 flight and pestered Bob Gilruth, the director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center ...