Gilruth, 48, director of Project Mercury and head of NASA’s ... Yardley worked closely with John Glenn to perfect the capsule, incorporating many of Glenn’s suggestions. The two became firm ...

The duo have been involved in the capsule’s development and insist ... ride an Atlas since NASA’s Project Mercury, starting with John Glenn when he became the first American to orbit the ...

From the moment he stepped out of his capsule onto the deck of the Noa ... the night before with President Kennedy. Said John Glenn Sr., as he casually greeted his son: “How’re you doing?” ...

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 ...

The duo have been involved in the capsule’s development and insist ... ride an Atlas since NASA’s Project Mercury, starting with John Glenn when he became the first American to orbit the ...