After flying Corsairs in WWII, he continued his military career which led him to two combat tours in the Korean War. In the ...

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 ...

Enjoy the music you miss from the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s by seeing “I Love the Nightlife,” written by local theater veterans ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project ... April 12, 1981 – Astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen fly Space Shuttle Columbia on the first flight ...

As the SpaceX Crew-10 spacecraft prepares for its launch from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, commanded by Spokane's Col. Anne McClain on her second mission to the International Space Station, ...

SUNSET: The spring season of Sunset at the Landing Concerts begin Mar. 21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the foot of Columbia ...

training and flights of the Mercury 7 astronauts, including Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn), John Glenn (Ed Harris), Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), and Lance Henrikson as Wally ...

But few have encountered the universal approval and adulation that last week engulfed Astronaut John Glenn ... more interested in Glenn himself than in Project Mercury, but Glenn got in his ...

Do you know the rich history behind the celebration of Women’s Day? It is tied to the growing labor movements in North America and Europe in the early 1900s.