On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth circling the earth three times.
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John Glenn flew the spacecraft Friendship 7 oFebruary 20, 1962 circling the earth three times.
the Friendship 7 spacecraft
John Glenn flew 75,679 miles in space during his historic orbital flight on February 20, 1962.
The next American to fly after John Glenn was Scott Carpenter, who orbited the Earth aboard the Aurora 7 spacecraft on May 24, 1962.
on the 29th of October 1998, John Glenn became the oldest man to fly in space. Astronaut John Glenn was a payload specialist during mission STS-95 aboard the space shuttle Discovery
NO! Technically, we all do. Did he fly a mission to orbit the sun, no.
He flew on Discovery. The mission was STS-95
The first American to fly into space was Alan Shepard in 1961. Gus Grissom was the second American in space in 1961, and John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
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