Mercury Friendship 7 (John H. Glenn, USA) was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times.
February 20, 1962, 19:43:02 UTC
John Glenn was famous for being the first American to orbit the Earth. He accomplished this historic feat on February 20, 1962, when he piloted the Friendship 7 spacecraft as part of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. This made him a national hero and a symbol of America's achievements in space exploration.
John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962, when he flew the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission for NASA.
John Glenn orbited the Earth on February 20, 1962 as part of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
In 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as part of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. This historic flight made him a national hero and symbol of the space age.
Mercury Man was created in 1962.
"Mercury Redstone 3", a Mercury capsule atop a Redstone rocket booster, carried NASA astronaut Alan Shepard on a 15-minute suborbital flight, May 5, 1961. The spacecraft was nicknamed "Freedom 7" and Shepard was the first American in space. Six months earlier, the more powerful Atlas rocket of "Mercury Atlas 5" had lofted Enos the chimpanzee for two orbits of the Earth. After Virgil "Gus" Grissom made a Redstone flight similar to Shepard's, John Glenn flew "Mercury-Atlas 6" and his capsule "Friendship 7" on February 20, 1962, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
The maximum speed of the 1962 Mercury Comet is 81 mph.
The cast of Riverboat Mission - 1962 includes: John Myhers as Hector Heathcote
40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
John Glenn became the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, aboard the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962.