Godspeed, John Glenn

NASA - Biography of John H. Glenn
"On February 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. Launched from Cape Canaveral (Florida) Launch Complex 14, he completed a successful three-orbit mission around the earth, reaching a maximum altitude (apogee) of approximately 162 statute miles and an orbital velocity of approximately 17,500 miles per hour. Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed approximately 800 miles southeast of Cape Canaveral in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island. Mission duration from launch to impact was 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds."
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html

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[Scientior]

@nenzi671

She didn't need any "flight experience" since the cosmonauts never actually piloted the Vostok spacecraft. She did need experience of parachuting, though. She spent the entire flight utterly incapacitated by motion sickness.

[panoz0]

He made a great achievement for the americans.

[bartdereu]

Unbelievable how much courage those guys had , and still do

[rawyld]

God speed John Glenn

[GGE47]

@40390576 This guy uranorexexic followed me from a JFK video and I wish you would read his posts.I blocked him and he came over here,and I kept trying to get him to stop ruining this video,but he was a little child and just had to keep bragging about how he proved me wrong.He finally found a way on my channel,cussed me out and closed down his channel.Guess he coudn't stand being wrong.

[pimmsdad]

@TtownJim and progeny of the V-2

[pimmsdad]

100 Percent. All the way!

[giannivee1]

@uranorexic I am with you Pit, it was an event that highlighted the best of science for America. And simple in its Greek like Heroics. Even Von Braun admited years later, that he thought it was almost suicide to settle on the Atlas as booster to put our man in orbit (up to that time it demonstrated many on pad explosions), yet we went bravely forward. I really think John Glenn should have gotten a congressional for sitting on that rocket that day..ha ha.

[Pitcairn2]

@uranorexic Listen you 9 year old fuckbrain, (1) I am not a she (2) I met Gagarin when he came to England in the 1960's. (3) I lived through the launch, of this , the sputniks before that , the failed vanguard launches ,and grew up in devastation caused by the ancestor of the Modern Rockets, the V2. Your pathetic immature blob of grey matter cannot see that in the scheme of things while it has great import in the future history of space travel it was a small episode.