a1962 book by the Mercury Seven, John Glenn mused about the word, which he evidently hadn’t used before joining the space program. “Another term we adopted to describe some of our problems was ...

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 ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury ... John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard. However, Deke Slayton was dropped due to a heart problem, although he continued to contribute to the ...

All Mercury astronauts came from the fighter pilot community. But one of them had a career that really stands out. It was the only Marine among them, John Glenn. After flying Corsairs in WWII ...