Astronaut John Glenn, left, and Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams were lifelong friends after serving in the same squadron during the Korean War. (NASA) After Ted Williams served as a Marine ...
(WHSV) - Over 60 years ago on Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. In the middle of the United States’ space race with the Soviet Union, John Herschel Glenn, Jr., a ...