When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The death of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, has led a historian who wrote a ...

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 – John Glenn’s birthplace and childhood hometown in Ohio are joining forces to celebrate what would have been the history-making astronaut and U.S. senator’s 100th birthday with a three-day ...

John Glenn's Friendship 7 mission, launched February 20, 1962, completed three Earth orbits, significantly boosting U.S. efforts in the Space Race and solidifying Glenn's status as a national hero, ...

The NASA JOHN H. GLENN RESEARCH CENTER AT LEWIS FIELD, a major component in the U.S. aerospace program, was established in Cleveland in 1941 as a laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for ...

Annie Glenn, who was thrust into the spotlight in 1962 when her husband became the first American to orbit the Earth, but who shied away from the media attention because of a severe stutter that later ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Astronaut John Glenn’s wife died Tuesday of COVID-19 at age 100. Annie Glenn died at a nursing home near St ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Annie Glenn, the widow of astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn and a communication disorders advocate, died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19. She was 100. Glenn died at a ...

John Glenn's birthplace and childhood hometown in Ohio are joining forces to celebrate what would have been the history-making astronaut and U.S. senator's 100th birthday with a three-day ...