Rehearsing for [ http://shuttle.nasa…] his historic flight [ http://www.ksc.nasa…] on February 20, 1962, Mercury program [ http://www.pathfind…] astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works [ http://www.pathfind…] in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space [ http://www.hq.nasa.…]. Dubbed Friendship 7 [ http://www.ksc.nasa…], his own snug spacecraft was launched by an Atlas rocket and carried Glenn three times around planet Earth [ http://www.pathfind…] at an altitude of about 120 miles, returning him safely to a "splashdown" in the Atlantic Ocean. The first American in orbit, Senator Glenn's remarkable return [ http://shuttle.nasa…] to space will be 36 years later as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 [ http://www.shuttlep…]. Discovery is a roomier craft [ http://shuttle.nasa…] which will carry a crew of 7 and an array of scientific payloads, such as the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker [ http://pao.gsfc.nas…]. Scheduled for launch today [ http://www.ksc.nasa…] at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, Discovery will orbit at an altitude of 320 miles and land after 8 days at Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility. Godspeed the crew of STS-95 [ http://shuttle.nasa…] !
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Rehearsing for [ http://shuttle.nasa…] his historic flight [ http://www.ksc.nasa…] on February 20, 1962, Mercury program [ http://www.pathfind…] astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works [ http://www.pathfind…] in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space [ http://www.hq.nasa.…]. Dubbed Friendship 7 [ http://www.ksc.nasa…], his own snug spacecraft was launched by an Atlas rocket and carried Glenn three times around planet Earth [ http://www.pathfind…] at an altitude of about 120 miles, returning him safely to a "splashdown" in the Atlantic Ocean. The first American in orbit, Senator Glenn's remarkable return [ http://shuttle.nasa…] to space will be 36 years later as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 [ http://www.shuttlep…]. Discovery is a roomier craft [ http://shuttle.nasa…] which will carry a crew of 7 and an array of scientific payloads, such as the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker [ http://pao.gsfc.nas…]. Scheduled for launch today [ http://www.ksc.nasa…] at 2:00 PM Eastern Time, Discovery will orbit at an altitude of 320 miles and land after 8 days at Kennedy Space Center's shuttle landing facility. Godspeed the crew of STS-95 [ http://shuttle.nasa…] !
