Mercury Friendship 7 traveled into Earthorbit in space.
John Glenn rode the Mercury-Atlas 6 rocket, also known as Friendship 7, to become the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.
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No, John Glenn did not ride in the Saturn V rocket. He was the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft, which was launched on a Mercury-Atlas rocket. Later, in 1998, he flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery, but he never participated in a mission that used the Saturn V rocket, which was primarily used for the Apollo missions to the Moon.
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Mercury Friendship 7 (John H. Glenn, USA) was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times.
The space capsules used in Project Mercury were named Freedom 7, Liberty Bell 7, Friendship 7, Sigma 7, Faith 7, and Aurora 7. These capsules carried astronaut pioneers such as Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter on their historic missions.
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Alan Shepard flew in the Mercury-Redstone 3 spacecraft, which was also known as Freedom 7.
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
The name of John Glenn's space capsule was Friendship 7.