12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
... state of Ohio – a role in which he pursued for 25 years. John Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space on his second flight, aboard ...to orbit the Earth, NASA astronaut and Ohio Senator John Glenn, passed away. We mourn this tremendous loss for ...
August 2016
Fireflies and saucers
... cosmonaut Georgy Grechko is an acknowledged ‘UFO expert’. The thing is - he actually created his own UFO! Astronaut John H. Glenn wearing a Mercury pressure suit at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during preflight training activities for his Mercury- Atlas...
13 March 2018
mu Space confirms satellite mission aboard New Glenn
... will launch a geostationary satellite aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital rocket. The launch window starts in late 2020...Named after the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, the launch vehicle is designed to be reusable which ...
26 September 2017
First Asian company partners with Blue Origin
...partner on a future launch of a geostationary satellite aboard the New Glenn orbital rocket. The launch is set to happen early in the ...after the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, John Glenn, the launch vehicle is designed to be reusable ...
March 2016
Space Oddities: The Problem with Imagination
... and Hart lobbied for the programme but were met with a dire lack of imagination, drawing astronaut John Glenn to comment: “The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order.” In the end...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
... a few, to those in science and technology who helped advance our understanding of the Universe around us; Piers Sellers, John Glenn, Vera Rubins, Ann Caracristi and Deborah Jin, again, to name but a few…. The list it seemed was...
