Before Glennan returned to Cleveland in 1961, the space agency had launched more than a dozen missions, selected the Project Mercury astronauts and laid the groundwork for the Apollo missions. But ...

Last month, five pilots and three loadmasters from the 315 th Airlift Wing, an Air Force Reserve C-17 unit based at Joint ...

Plain old white. That basic color has saved countless astronaut lives. NASA didn't always have white spacesuits. Their very first manned spaceflight, Project Mercury, featured silver suits ...

starting with Project Mercury and continuing until the present. With these and other spacecraft in the pipeline, countless dreams of zero-gravity somersaults could soon become a reality—at least ...

December 7, 2016 - Ohio State University spokesman Hank Wilson says Glenn was hospitalized “more than a week ago,” but does not have any information about his condition. December 8, 2016 - Dies at The ...