When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...

But, well before the moon landing, back in 1962, an astronaut called John Glenn got to fly up to space in a rocket, where he saw something that 'he'd never seen anything like' before in his life.

On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two ...

“To look out at this kind of creation out here and not believe in God is to me impossible," John Herschel Glenn Jr said after he traveled to space.

John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.

"I've changed a lot as a filmmaker, but I'm still the same idiot I've always been," says Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Opening Feb. 26 at LACMA, his new art installation celebrates 25 ...

Inside the most underrated awards show of the season. New York Fashion Week trends toward the familiar. A new fashion exhibition about '90s nostalgia opens in downtown L.A., and Nahmias reigns supreme ...

While it is one of Neil Simon’s lesser-known plays, “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” gives a fascinating and hilarious backstage ...