He was picked up from the Pacific Ocean and taken on board , he must have met sailors or John Kennedy.
John Glenn made only one space flight ,and it was of three orbits.
Mr. Glenn circled the globe three times during his first flight.
John Glenn flew 75,679 miles in space during his historic orbital flight on February 20, 1962.
John Glenn's flight in 1962 made him the first American to orbit the Earth, while Alan Shepard's flight in 1961 was a suborbital flight, meaning he went up and came straight back down. Glenn's flight lasted longer and was more complex than Shepard's.
John Glenn made America's first orbital flight on February 20,1962. The Russians beat us to it, but John Glenn was the first astronaut.
John Glenn made only one space flight ,and it was of three orbits.
Febuary 20th 1962
Mr. Glenn circled the globe three times during his first flight.
Friendship 7
John Glenn flew 75,679 miles in space during his historic orbital flight on February 20, 1962.
John Glenn's flight in 1962 made him the first American to orbit the Earth, while Alan Shepard's flight in 1961 was a suborbital flight, meaning he went up and came straight back down. Glenn's flight lasted longer and was more complex than Shepard's.
John Glenn made America's first orbital flight on February 20,1962. The Russians beat us to it, but John Glenn was the first astronaut.
NASA astronaut John Glenn's February 20, 1962 flight splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after circling the earth three times.
John Glenn encountered an issue with the spacecraft's heat shield during his flight back to Earth. This caused concerns about the safety of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Ultimately, he safely landed in the Atlantic Ocean.
He wasn't. Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth - once - in 1961, a year before Glenn's flight.
John Glenn returned to Earth from space on February 20, 1962, after completing the first orbital flight by an American astronaut on the Friendship 7 spacecraft.
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.