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John Glenn a pioneer in space travel

John Glenn is the last surviving member of the original seven 'Right Stuff' Mercury astronauts

NASA will award up to three $30,000 prizes to the best 'space poop' solutions

Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday following a 115-day mission aboard the International Space Station

The mission comes the same day a US space probe was cleared for launch to collect and return samples from an asteroid

Two NASA astronauts completed a six-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install a parking spot

Space is our future and should be shared by all human beings, he says

First flower even grown in space makes debut, US astronaut Scott Kelly wrote on Twitter, with a photo of the flower

Peake became first British astronaut to travel to space station after blasting off from Baikonur cosmodrome

Mobile transporter rail car carries the robotic arm from one location to another on the outside of the orbiting lab