‘Godspeed, John Glenn’

By THE NEW YORK TIMES April 6, 2017 America stood still that day — Feb. 20, 1962 — as John Glenn, a Marine pilot, climbed into the Mercury capsule, named the Friendship 7, sitting on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. In a...

‘Godspeed, John Glenn’

By THE NEW YORK TIMES April 6, 2017 America stood still that day — Feb. 20, 1962 — as John Glenn, a Marine pilot, climbed into the Mercury capsule, named the Friendship 7, sitting on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral in Florida. In a...