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 ...

Tuesday, September 14 at 8 pm ET, join us as we explore what's next for humans in space. Register: https://s.si.edu/36OzPFn Motivated by a belief that solving big problems leads to innovations that ...

Monumentally important, this is the first image of an American astronaut in space. In the Project Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.

One of the first and extremely rare full-color photographs taken by John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the first human to capture still photographs from space. Overwhelmed by the ...