1960s Timeline

Mar. 30, 1962 - Maj. Donald K. Slayton’s fellow astronauts have appealed to President Kennedy to reverse the decision disqualifying him...

Mar. 15, 1962 - Major Donald K. Slayton (left) of the Air Force has been ordered for medical reasons to withdraw as the Project Mercury...

Mar. 14, 1962 - A group of rowdy youths cursed and scuffled with Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. (pictured with his wife Annie) outside a...

Mar. 1, 1962 - New York poured out its affection for Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. today with bands, banners, and a blizzard of paper so...

Feb. 27, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. warned Congress today that men would lose their lives in the new national endeavor of...

Feb. 26, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. and his family received a joyous, roaring welcome from their neighbors that almost got out...

Feb. 26, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John Glenn Jr. told Congress today that President Kennedy’s 4-year-old daughter, Caroline, seems to have him...

Feb. 26, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. was cheered up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol today by thousands of drenched spectators...

Feb. 25, 1962 - All seven Mercury astronauts will come to New York City for the parade honoring Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. on...

Feb. 23, 1962 - Here is a special CBS News presentation on the historic flight of Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr. #nasa #nasabeyond...

Feb. 23, 1962 - It would have been hard to convince anyone in a television quiz-show audience in New York a little more than four years...

Feb. 23, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., the first American to orbit the earth, returned to his take-off point today. He was...

Feb. 22, 1962 - President Kennedy brought the Glenn family to Florida today on the way to a reunion with the head of the house — Lieut....

Feb. 22, 1962 - New York City plans to give “one of the great welcomes of its history” to Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. and his fellow...

Feb. 21, 1962 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev called on the U.S. today to join its efforts with those of the Soviet Union in the conquest of...

Feb. 21, 1962 - Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. was pronounced today by the Project Mercury physician, Lieut. Col. William Douglas, to be...

Feb. 21, 1962 - President Kennedy will turn his meeting with Lieut. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday into a...

Feb. 21, 1962 - President Kennedy wrote Soviet Premier Khrushchev today that he hoped representatives of their two Governments could meet...

Feb. 20, 1962 - At 9:30 a.m., when the New York Mets’ second day of spring training was set to begin in St. Petersburg, Fla., most of the...

Feb. 20, 1962 - Leigh Wade (pictured third from left in 1924) got out of bed at 6:30 a.m. today to watch on television as Lieut. Col....