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Mercury: Quick Facts

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Friendship 7
Alan B. Shepard
Virgil I. (“Gus”) Grissom
John Glenn entering Friendship 7
Scott Carpenter, 1964
Wally Schirra
launch of Faith 7
Friendship 7
(Top) U.S. astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., entering the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962, in preparation for launch. Riding into space atop a modified Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (bottom), Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.
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John Glenn
John Glenn
American astronaut and politician
Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson
American mathematician
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
American astronaut
Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper
American astronaut
Carpenter, Scott
Scott Carpenter
American astronaut
Wally Schirra
Wally Schirra
American astronaut
Slayton, Donald Kent
Donald Kent Slayton
American astronaut
Virgil I. Grissom, 1964.
Virgil I. Grissom
American astronaut

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