John Glenn launched on the Friendship 7 flight, the first human orbital flight for NASA, which premiered this video to ...

NASA launched an astronaut into orbit around the Earth for the first time. John Glenn was the third American to launch into ...

1954-1956 – After the Korean conflict, Glenn attends test pilot school at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland. 1957 – Sets the speed record flying from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 ...