"Godspeed, John Glenn"3: Friendship7: 6of6

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Friendship 7
"Mission Highlights:
Mission Successful. First American in orbit. Total time weightless 4 hours 48min 27sec.
During the flight only two major problems were encountered: (1) a yaw attitude control jet apparently clogged at the end of the first orbit, forcing the astronaut to abandon the automatic control system for the manual-electrical fly-by-wire system; and (2) a faulty switch in the heat shield circuit indicated that the clamp holding the shield had been prematurely released- a signal later found to be false. During reentry, however, the retropack was not jettisoned but retained as a safety measure to hold the heat shield in place in the event it had loosened. "
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