COLUMBUS, Ohio (WABC) -- John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday ...

Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. Personal Birth date: July 18, 1921 Death date: December 8, 2016 Birth place: Cambridge, Ohio ...

John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of ...

People across the world are reacting to the death of the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, John Glenn. "Godspeed, John Glenn," NASA wrote in a tweet. "Today, the people of Ohio remember a ...

Monumentally important, this is the first image of an American astronaut in space. In the Project Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.

Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has died in Ohio. He was 95. Glenn became a national hero in 1962 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Hank Wilson with the John Glenn School ...