Sitting beside his Friendship 7 capsule, astronaut John Glenn, pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, is suited up, preparing for the launch. Artist Cecilia Bibby, who painted the 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 mission ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of America’s first human orbital space flight. The Project Mercury mission flown by astronaut John Glenn aboard his Friendship 7 capsule was an important ...

ST. LOUIS • John Glenn not only circled the Earth in a Mercury capsule, he and the other Friendship 7 astronauts greatly influenced its design. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight. The first American to ...

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.