... Washington, D.C. According to Spinoff, a NASA publication about the practical benefits of aerospace research, astronaut John Glenn drank Tang while in orbit in 1962, upping the orange-flavored beverage's visibility and linking it to the space ...

... Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon's surface in 1969. In 1998, for CNN, he went back to Cape Canaveral to cover John Glenn's return to space after 36 years. "It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter ...

... MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Never mind John Glenn, ''that old guy who's going up in space.'' The ... s going up in space,'' Harden said, laughing. John Glenn will share shuttle with, ugh, cockroaches

... 1870, Texas was readmitted to the Union. In 1945, the Soviet Union invaded Austria during World War II. In 1964, John Glenn withdrew from the Ohio race for the U.S. Senate because of injuries suffered in a fall. In 1964, the original version ...

... evidence of their concern about the issue, the Clinton campaign released two new ads in Ohio, including one featuring John Glenn a former astronaut and U.S. senator from Ohio for 24 years saying Clinton would fix trade agreements like NAFTA ...

... himself with an air rifle. Today's Birthdays: Former South African President Nelson Mandela is 90. Former Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, is 87. Skating champion and commentator Dick Button is 79. Movie director Paul Verhoeven is 70. Singer ...

... Kinley named then-Assistant Chief Jerry Snowden the new chief. From Cape Canaveral, Fla., it was reported that John Glenn had returned to Earth as exuberant as when he set out on his historic rocket ride, a journey of nearly 4 million miles ...

JOHN GLENN: A MEMOIR, by John Glenn with Nick Taylor (Bantam Books, 408 pages, $27) "It was a sin to throw anything away," John Glenn writes in the opening line of his memoirs. So, as his parents ...

... on Earth, Congress should. OK, we'll accept that John Glenn's shuttle mission provided a few feel-good moments ... nation's space projects farther out into orbit than John Glenn ever will go. On the mission a crew of American astronauts ...

... WASHINGTON -- Whatever wear and tear that space travel may impose on the human body, it doesn't much show on former Sen. John Glenn. Scientists were meeting here Thursday and Friday to discuss some of the research accomplishments of the pioneering ...