From the archives: April 9, 1962 NBC Special News Report: Flight of Friendship 7. NBC’s Frank McGee interviews astronaut John Glenn about becoming the first American to orbit the earth. Glenn’s ...

Editor's note: It's been 60 years since John Glenn's mission aboard the Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. We're republishing this story on its impact, originally published in 2012, in honor of the ...

Half a century ago, John Glenn went out for a pack of gum. That’s the way he described it, anyway. “Well, I’m going down to the corner to buy some chewing gum,” he told his wife Annie, just as he told ...