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/abo...

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[hotchowder]

This was a time when America's future was limitless and its politicians seemed to care about its future at least as much as their own.

[panoz0]

He made a great achievement for the americans.

[Brad Brown]

We used to be such a great nation... It's my hope that within my lifetime we will be once again. We need to get back to our former greatness.

[FlyingPiper13]

Tha atlas was a beautiful rocket!

[ItsMeLegit]

Ok... is there a reason you brought this to my attention?

[irish89055]

because you have no imagination or apparently, intelligence as this was cutting edge technology, actually initially started in development in the 40's and the Atlas had a life of over 40 years. Mr Glenn flew 50 years ago tomorrow and those Atlas rockets were sometimes blowing up at this point. The thing at the very top of the capsule is an escape rocket, designed to pull the capsule out of danger if something went wrong...

[ItsMeLegit]

I could never imagine being strapped to a rocket on my way to outer space using the latest technology from the 50s...

[Garland English]

@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.

[Warren Mells]

and progeny of the V-2