This week marks the 62nd anniversary of John Glenn becoming the first American to go into orbit. John Glenn grew up only two hours outside of Pittsburgh in Cambridge, Ohio. He orbited Earth three ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WABC) -- John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday ...

On the first attempt by the United States to orbit a human around the Earth, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to be successfully placed in Earth orbit. The date was February 20, ...

Astronaut John Glenn enters the Friendship 7 spacecraft Feb. 20, 1962, before the first manned U.S. orbit of the Earth. The mission used navigation technology developed by the General Electric ...

*NPR Reporter covering 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah On February 20, 1962, John Glenn made history as he became the first American to orbit the earth. During the four-hour 55-minute ...

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Godspeed, John Glenn - 10, nine, eight, seven... INSKEEP: That's the countdown as John Glenn sat in a space capsule and was soon the first American to orbit the Earth. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

“This is Friendship 7. Have beautiful view of the African Coast.” That was astronaut John Glenn reporting back to Earth from the Friendship 7 capsule on February 20th, 1962. Exactly 50 years ago. One ...

Glenn, a small-town boy who later became one of Ohio's longest-serving U.S. senators, is remembered as the first American to orbit Earth.

In this 1962 image taken from a Kodachrome slide, we see Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn and his wife, Annie, riding in a Lincoln Continental on Main Street in downtown Houston. The two were taking ...

Even though friendship seven sits only *** few blocks from his Senate office, John Glenn rarely comes by. But those memories of 30 years ago are crystal clear when you really realize that this is, it ...