John Glenn lived a life filled with firsts. After serving as a pilot in World War II and the Korean War, he became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 as a member of the Mercury 7, NASA's ...

A sampling of quotes from John Glenn: "We are placed here with certain talents and capabilities. It is up to each of us to use those talents and capabilities as best you can. If you do that, I think ...

Glenn was born in 1921 a few miles away in Cambridge, Ohio, but spent almost his entire youth in this dignified home, a picture-postcard image of the American heartland. The future U.S. Marine Corps ...

Half a century ago, John Glenn went out for a pack of gum. That’s the way he described it, anyway. “Well, I’m going down to the corner to buy some chewing gum,” he told his wife Annie, just as he told ...

In one of the more unusual intersections of American history, astronaut-turned-senator John Glenn and baseball legend Ted Williams served together in the same Marine Corps fighter squadron during the ...