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Launch of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission
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S62-00954 (20 February 1962) --- This is a view of the Mercury-Atlas 6 spacecraft as it leaves the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Onboard the spacecraft is astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the MA-6 mission, on its way to a three-Earth-orbital mission, making Glenn the first American to fly a manned Earth-orbiting mission.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLaunch of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. NASA/JSC, 1962-02-20. Public domain. ID: S62-00954.
