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It was a short but historic flight that made John Glenn the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Mercury-Atlas 6 in 1962. Better known as Friendship 7, the Mercury spacecraft seen in this image lifted off from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on February 20, 1962, at 9:47 a.m. EST and splashed into the Atlantic Ocean after five hours in orbit.
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August 30, 2010 6:40 PM PDT
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