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John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth. On the morning of February 20, 1962, millions of Americans collectively held their breath as the world’s newest pioneer swept across the threshold of one of man’s last frontiers.
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Cape Canaveral It was at Cape Canaveral that this history would take place, from its triumphs to its tragedies, from Mercury through the Space Shuttle, from missions to the moon and Mars, and into the future. The astronaut program would launch with what would become famous names: Alan B. Sheppard, Jr., John Glenn.here will likely be a vacation to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center to check out NASA's past and present, before then. Historic Dates of the Space Program. October 1, 1958 - NASA begins operation. May 5, 1961 - First manned suborbital flight by Alan Shepard. It lasted 14.8 minutes.
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Alan Shepard Glenn is the earliest-born American to go to orbit, and the second earliest-born man overall after Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy. Glenn received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990.
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Humans in Space The Mercury and Gemini programs were the early U.S. efforts in human spaceflight and they were spectacular successes: May 1961: American astronaut Alan Shepard went briefly into space, but not into orbit, on the Mercury 3 mission. February 1962: Astronaut John Glenn spent five hours in orbit on the Mercury 6 mission.
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An American orbits earth In 1957, he made the first nonstop supersonic flight across the United States, flying from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes. Glenn was preceded in space by two Americans, Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, and two Soviets, Yuri A. Gagarin and Gherman S. Titov. In April 1961, Gagarin was the first man in space, and his spacecraft Vostok 1 made a full orbit before returning to Earth. Less than one month later, Shepard was launched into space aboard Freedom 7 on a suborbital flight. In July, Grissom made another brief suborbital flight aboard Liberty Bell 7.
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Alan Shepard: First American in Space The stakes were raised in the space race on April 15, 1961, when the Soviet Union launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space and he became the first person to orbit the Earth. Gagarin beat the Americans by less than a month.
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Today in science: John Glenn Glenn returned to space at age 77 aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1998, making him the oldest person to fly in space. His mission’s primary scientific aim at that time was to study the effects of spaceflight on seniors. Bottom line: John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962. His space capsule was called Friendship 7. Read more from NASA about John Glenn and Friendship 7.
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John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth After Glenn’s first orbit, Control had received a telemetry signal indicating that his capsule’s heat shield might be loose. If that signal was correct, Glenn and the spacecraft would disintegrate in the three-thousand-degree heat generated by reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
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A Brief History of Space Exploration After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union created their own missile programs. On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space. Four years later on April 12, 1961, Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in Vostok 1. His flight lasted 108 minutes, and Gagarin reached an altitude of 327 kilometers (about 202 miles). The first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1, went into orbit on January 31, 1958. In 1961 Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space. On February 20, 1962, John Glenn’s historic flight made him the first American to orbit Earth.
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7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn became the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth when he successfully completed three orbits aboard the space capsule “Friendship 7.” In the midst of Cold War tensions and amid the very real fear that the Soviet Union was winning the space race, Glenn’s accomplishment brought a sense of pride ...
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- There are three kinds of answers: ones that are mostly right, ones that are mostly wrong, and those that once were right but now are wrong. While John Glenn is usually given credit, as he was the first American to orbit the Earth, the first in space was actually Alan Shepard Jr. (1923-1998).
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Yuri Gagarin He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour.
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- Ten years later, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, and was the fifth person to walk on the Moon. Gus Grissom: second American spaceflight Shortly afterwards on July 21, 1961, Gus Grissom piloted Liberty Bell 7 on the second American (suborbital) spaceflight. This was the second of seven manned flights in Project Mercury.
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John Glenn: 1st American to Orbit Earth, Oldest Man in Space In April 1959, Glenn was selected as a Project Mercury astronaut. He became part of the Mercury Seven group, the first astronauts selected by NASA. Glenn served as backup astronaut to the first two Americans in space, Alan Shepard and Virgil Gus Grissom.
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NASA Remembers First U.S. Manned Space Flight US Mission Geneva. NASA Remembers First U.S. Manned Space Flight. On May 5, 1961, mercury astronaut, Alan B. Shepard , Jr. became the first American launched into space at 9:34a.m. EST aboard the Freedom 7 capsule. Washington – America’s national space agency is marking the 50th anniversary of the United States’ entry into manned space flight May 5.
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John Glenn: First American to Orbit the Earth Roughly a hundred miles above their heads, astronaut John Glenn sat comfortably in the weightless environment of a 9 1/2-by-6-foot space capsule he called Friendship 7. Within these close quarters he worked through his flight plan and completed an array of technical and medical tests as he cruised through the heavens.
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How big is the Kennedy Space Center? The Kennedy Space Center celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2012. In 1961 Alan Shepard was the first man into space and in 1962 John Glenn was the first American man to orbit … the earth. tsd -raven-
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- On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
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- It was 50 years ago that man first ventured into space. On April 12, 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in Vostok 1 (Vostok 3KA-3) on a flight lasting 108 minutes and became the first human being to leave the confines of the Earth's atmosphere.
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Neil Armstrong In attendance were Armstrong's Apollo 11 crewmates, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin; Eugene A. Cernan, the Apollo 17 mission commander and last man to walk on the Moon; and former Senator and astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Space exploration The U.S. first launched a person into space within a month of Vostok 1 with Alan Shepard's suborbital flight in Mercury-Redstone 3. Orbital flight was achieved by the United States when John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 orbited Earth on 20 February 1962.
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- Chronology of Selected Highlights in the First 100 American Spaceflights, 1961-1995 May 5, 1961: Freedom 7, the first piloted Mercury spacecraft (No. 7) carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., was launched from Cape Canaveral by MercuryRedstone (MR3) launch vehicle, to an altitude of 115 nautical miles and a range of 302 miles.
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Astronomy for Kids 1 He was the first human to travel into outer space and orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Vostok spacecraft when it successfully orbited the Earth in 1961.  Gus Grissom (1926 - 1967) - Gus Grissom was the second American to travel to space aboard the Liberty Bell 7.
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- The Russian spacecraft Sputnik 1 was the first spacecraft to orbit the earth. It was launched on October 4, 1957. It transmitted radio signals on amateur radio frequencies f … or 22 days. Sputnik 1 burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere on January 4 1958.
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth in 1962 Astronaut John Glenn climbs into the Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. for the flight which made him the first American to orbit the earth. (AP)
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- John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth when he blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on February 20, 1962. Seven years later, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon after Apollo 11 was launched from the nearby Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.