John Glenn20 February 1962
John Glenn becomes the first American to circle the Earth, making three orbits in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft
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John Glenn becomes the first American to circle the Earth, making three orbits in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft
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