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 ...

John Glenn died at 95 Thursday ... to become the so-called “Mercury Seven,” America’s first astronauts. (Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Deke ...

He was the last surviving astronaut of the original seven from Project Mercury. March 1942 – Enlists ... christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship. May 2014 – Undergoes ...

An curved arrow pointing right. John Glenn described this training exercise as "the weirdest" he'd ever done. Glenn was part of the Mercury Seven, seven astronauts chosen by NASA after President ...

The original seven Mercury astronauts don their spacesuits in this 1961 file photo provided by NASA. From left, first row: Walter Schirra Jr., Donald Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.

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 ...

In the caption for the accompanying picture of astronaut John Glenn entering his spaceship in 1962, we told readers he was “bound for Mercury”. Thanks to Richard Lewis for pointing out that ...