Be it in a small plane or a space capsule, John Glenn loved to soar

Maj. John Glenn posed with his family in July 1957, minutes after he landed at Floyd Bennett Field in New York upon completion of a coast-to-coast record flight in a Navy jet fighter From left are Lyn, 10; John; David, 11; and Annie. The young Marine pilot had flown from Los Alamitos, Calif., in three hours, 23 minutes, 8.4 seconds, beating by nearly 22 minutes a mark set in 1955.