The Buttons Category consists of 257 artifacts arranged into the sub-categories of Family, NASA, and Senate. The majority of the items in the collection are political buttons from election campaigns or buttons supporting a particular public policy issue. The issue buttons advocate a variety of topics of importance to Senator John Glenn, such as veterans affairs, children, energy, education, women's rights, and the economy. The collection also contains buttons from Glenn's career as a NASA astronaut and Glenn's delegate badges from Democratic National Conventions.