OTD in space - February 20: John Glenn becomes 1st American to orbit Earth

On February 20, 1962, NASA launched an astronaut into orbit around the Earth for the first time. John Glenn was the third ...
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: John Glenn’s First Human Orbital Flight for NASA Celebrates 64th Anniversary

When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...