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Blog February 2004 Archive

By Nick Greene, About.com Guide to Space / Astronomy since 1997

John Glenn - First American to Orbit Earth

Friday February 20, 2004
Forty-two years ago today, John H. Glenn, Jr. launched from Cape Canaveral (renamed Kennedy) and made America's first orbital flight on February 20, 1962, piloting the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship 7 Read More...

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