Sitting beside his Friendship 7 capsule, astronaut John Glenn, pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, is suited up, preparing for the launch. Artist Cecilia Bibby, who painted the Friendship 7 ...
One of the first and extremely rare full-color photographs taken by John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the first human to capture still photographs from space. Overwhelmed by the ...
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Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn's first trip to space
On Feb. 20, 1962, Mercury-Atlas 6 mission launched, sending the Friendship 7 capsule containing John Glenn into orbit. Two Soviets – Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov – had previously orbited Earth, but ...
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