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.
3 times, because 3 goes into 18 and 51.
John Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the Friendship 7 craft. Of course, he also orbited Earth in the shuttle Discovery on the nine-day mission STS-95.
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.
John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
The name of John Glenn's space shuttle when he first orbited the Earth in 1962 was Friendship 7.
3 times, because 3 goes into 18 and 51.
John Glenn orbited the earth three times oFebruary 20, 1962 becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the Friendship 7 craft. Of course, he also orbited Earth in the shuttle Discovery on the nine-day mission STS-95.
John Glenn
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.
Yuri Gagarin did.
The name of John Glenn's space shuttle when he first orbited the Earth in 1962 was Friendship 7.
John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
Mercury Friendship 7 (John H. Glenn, USA) was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times.
40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
Former NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio John Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio on July 18, 1921. He orbited the earth on February 20, 1962 at age 40.
The first American astronaut to orbit the Earth was John Glenn. He orbited the Earth three times on February 20, 1962, aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft.