Delaware legislators and education officials are concerned proposed amendments to a Senate-approved education reform bill will lead to the death of the legislation. House members filed 10 amendments ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. The ...

Astronaut John Glenn dies at the age of 95. He was the first american to orbit the Earth in 1962. He returned to space in 1998 and broke another record to become the oldest astronaut at the age of 77.

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United States Space Program Oral History Collection [Kapp], Acc. NASM.XXXX.0138, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Sound tracks for John Glenn Orbits the Earth, a US Information ...

UPDATE @ 2:54 p.m. (Dec. 9): President Barack Obama has ordered flags at half-staff through the burial of John Glenn on all public buildings and grounds. UPDATE @ 12:36 p.m. (Dec. 9): Late space hero ...

On May 24, 1962, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth. Carpenter was one of NASA’s first group of astronauts known as the ...