John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

The four women and six men each received a silver NASA astronaut pin — a tradition dating back to the original Mercury 7 astronauts — signaling they are now eligible for spaceflight assignments.

Veteran NASA astronauts Bernard Harris and Peggy Whitson will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, at Kennedy Space Center.