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

John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to ...

John Glenn grew up only two hours outside of Pittsburgh ... He commented on how mission control thought he was close to burning to death when a faulty sensor detected that the heat shield had ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. March 1942 – Enlists in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and upon completing flight ...

February 1, 2014 – Glenn and his wife are present as their daughter Lyn christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship. May 2014 – Undergoes successful heart valve ...