Nate D Sanders Auctions is offering another vintage bit of Space Race memorabilia – NASA astronaut John Glenn's timeline of flight instructions that flew on his historic 1962 Mercury-Atlas 6 mission ...

On Feb. 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. See behind-the-scenes shots of his historic flight and the training he underwent to prepare for it.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- According to the 2012 Statistical Abstract, only about 25 percent of today's American population were at least 5 years old when John Glenn climbed into the Friendship 7 Mercury ...

John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight took less than five hours. But the lessons NASA learned that day continue to propel the agency forward today. The United States was falling behind in the space ...

376869 01: Astronaut John Glenn, Jr. is loaded into the Friendship 7 capsule in preparation for ...More flight on the Mercury Titan rocket February 20, 1962. Getty Images. Sixty years hence, it ...

If you are visiting this page during the hours of the Friendship 7 flight 50 years ago, from 9:47 a.m. to 2:43 p.m. on Feb. 20, you should be able to find the image of the Mercury space capsule ...

Fifty years ago on Monday, a red-headed Marine colonel, John Glenn, strapped into a tiny Mercury capsule known as Friendship 7. Of NASA's human spaceflights, the third was perhaps the most urgent.

John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.

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 ...

John Glenn's supersonic flight helmet up for auction A U.S. Navy helmet worn by John Glenn during his record-breaking supersonic flight, dubbed Project Bullet, will be auctioned in Los Angeles ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The helmet John Glenn wore during his history-making transcontinental flight is being sold. The late astronaut and US senator made the first supersonic transcontinental flight ...