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Astronaut John Glenn During
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Astronaut John Glenn During Mercury-Atlas 6 Pre-launch Activities |
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Astronaut John Glenn gives ready sign during Mercury-Atlas 6 pre- launch training activities. |
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01/23/1962 |
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Kennedy Space Center |
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Launch of Friendship 7
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Launch of Friendship 7 |
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Launch of Friendship 7, the first American manned orbital space flight. Astronaut John Glenn aboard, the Mercury-Atlas rocket is launched from Pad 14. |
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2/20/1962 |
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Kennedy Space Center |
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John Glenn: Friendship 7 To
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John Glenn: Friendship 7 To Discovery |
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Rehearsing for [ http://shuttle.nasa.gov/sts-95/images/preflight/62_01021.html ] his historic flight [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/ma-6/sounds/ ] on February 20, 1962, Mercury program [ http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/space/giantleap/sec3/intro.html ] astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works [ http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/space/giantleap/sec3/glenn1.html ] in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4201/cover.htm ]. Dubbed Friendship 7 [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/ma-6/ma-6.html ], his own snug spacecraft was launched by an Atlas rocket and carried Glenn three times around planet Earth [ http://www.pathfinder.com/Life/space/giantleap/sec3/g_story1.html ] 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.gov/sts-95/crew/glenn.html ] to space will be 36 years later as a payload specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 [ http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/ ]. Discovery is a roomier craft [ http://shuttle.nasa.gov/sts-95/crew/mershut.html ] which will carry a crew of 7 and an array of scientific payloads, such as the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker [ http://pao.gsfc.nasa.gov/GSFC/Missions/STS95/IEH-3.htm ]. Scheduled for launch today [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-95/countdown.html ] 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.gov/sts-95/crew/index.html ] ! |
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Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr.,
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S64-14869
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1962-02-01 |
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NASA |
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S64-14869 |
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