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Starting on July 28, in Washington, D.C., the museum will welcome visitors to view "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," ...
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A young Gold Coast polysubstance drug dealer and cocaine addict whose operation spanned nearly the length of Queensland has narrowly avoided jail.
Pilots, aviation enthusiasts and aspiring aviators will want to bee-line for a museum dedicated to the art of flying. Each ...
On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member John Glenn set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7 ...
A 16mm camera onboard the Friendship 7 Mercury-Atlas spacecraft took a series of photos of astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. during his Earth-orbital, Mercury-Atlas 6 space flight February 20, 1962.
Six decades ago, NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 6 mission came perilously close to disaster. It all ended triumphantly however and John Glenn’s three Earth orbits in his tiny Mercury Friendship 7 ...
Sunday marks 60 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. On Feb. 20, 1962, the "Mercury Seven" member set out on the agency's three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 ...
Glenn’s Mercury flight changed everything. That one mission opened the door for the Apollo program, the shuttle program, the International Space Station and someday a manned trip to Mars.
To mark the 60th anniversary of Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn's historic orbit of the Earth, a photography expert has remastered footage from his flight.
The astronaut trained three years for this space flight, a top Kennedy priority, most of it at NASA's center in Hampton. John Glenn's personal notes are part of the material author Jeff Shesol ...
Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration.