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Mercury Project
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Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of MA-6 on February 20, 1961 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.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury Project. NASA/MSFC, 1962-02-20. Public domain. ID: 6205817.
