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English: 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.
Date Taken on 20 February 1962
Source http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=3077.
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  • 2003-06-18 20:29 Rotem Dan 640×439× (70758 bytes) Freindship 7 capsule, larger version. NASA Public domain

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