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He wasn't. Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth - once - in 1961, a year before Glenn's flight.
It was a planned water landing. NASA did not have the ability to do a landing on solid ground.
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Mr. Glenn circled the globe three times during his first flight.
John Glenn, this was his second space flight, however, post- Nasa he entered politics. Glenn, a Marine, was the first US astronaut to actually make an orbital flight- that of Shepherd and one other man were sub-orbital rocket missions. No, it was Jake Garn
John Glenn few alone on his first flight aboard Friendship 7, which launched on February 20, 1962. Glenn Was the 3rd American in space and the first to orbit the earth. On October 29, 1998, Glenn lifted off for his second spaceflight, this time aboard STS-95, which carried a crew of 7. Glenn did not fly the Shuttle, he was a passenger.
NASA astronaut John Glenn's February 20, 1962 flight lifted off at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The flight circled the earth three times. The flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes before the Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.
John Glenn was 40 years old when he piloted the Friendship 7 into space. Glenn was born in July of 1921, and he piloted the Friendship 7 into space in February of 1962. In October of 1998, Glenn was aboard the STS-95, a Discovery Space Shuttle. Glenn was 77 years old at the time he made his second flight in space on the STS-95.
along with the wright brothers he was a pinoner of flight!
Febuary 20th 1962
John Glenn made only one space flight ,and it was of three orbits.
Friendship 7