Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio ...

King Tut's tomb opened in 1923, John Glenn orbits Earth in 1962, Nixon's plan to stem inflation in 1973, Dale Earnhardt dies ...

1944 – Flies 59 combat missions during his World War II service ... their daughter Lyn christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship. May 2014 – Undergoes successful ...

Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company is making hundreds of employees redundant as it recovers from a less than ...

A Blue Origin spacecraft will attempt to mimic lunar gravity in a daring maneuver during a planned Tuesday morning launch from West Texas.