John Glenn 13, "Friendship 7", and had the name hand-painted on the side like the one on his F-86 had been. Glenn and Carpenter completed their training for the mission in January 1962, but postponement of the launch allowed them to continue rehearsing. Glenn spent 25 hours and 25 minutes in the spacecraft performing hangar and altitude tests, and 59 hours and 45 minutes in the simulator. He flew 70 simulated missions and reacted to 189 simulated system failures. After a long series of delays, "Friendship 7" lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on February 20, 1962. There were eleven
Glenn Beck what Beck contends is a clandestine conspiracy to take over and transform the United States.<ref name="5/17/2010">"Crime Inc.: Redistribution of Wealth", "Glenn Beck Program", May 17, 2010</ref> Some of these individuals include Cass Sunstein, Van Jones, Andy Stern, John Podesta, Wade Rathke, Joel Rogers and Francis Fox Piven. Other figures tied to Beck's "Crime Inc." accusation include Al Gore, Franklin Raines,<ref name="4/30/2010">"Glenn Beck: Crime Inc.", "Glenn Beck Program", April 30, 2010</ref> Maurice Strong, George Soros,<ref name="6/22/2010">Glenn Beck:' Soros Poised to Profit?" Fox News, June 22, 2010</ref> John Holdren and President Barack Obama. According to Beck, these individuals already have or are