April 1959 – NASA selects Glenn ... February 1, 2014 – Glenn and his wife are present as their daughter Lyn christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship.

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to ... in three hours and 23 minutes. April 1959 – NASA selects Glenn as one of seven astronauts for Project Mercury.