Image: Friendship 7 (big)
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Description: Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of MA-6 on February 20, 1962 and became the first American who orbited the Earth. The MA-6 mission was the first manned orbital flight boosted by the Mercury-Atlas vehicle, a modified Atlas ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), lasted for five hours, and orbited the Earth three times.
Title: Friendship 7 (big)
Credit: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=3077.
Author: NASA
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