Compressed into her tiny cápsulaFriendship 7 (Friendship 7), John Glennbecame the first American to orbit Earth. The date is a day like today, 20February 1962. It became a national hero and never got off the podium. Hepolitical career and became senator from Ohio, but far from settle into his chair,went through a physical ordeal to prepare for their second record.Compliments 77, participated in a Discovery mission and earned the title ofworld’s oldest astronaut. No wonder Glenn represents for many the essence of America: ambition, adventure and overcoming.

NASA turns these days to celebrate the anniversary of his hero’s exploitspace, a feat that no secret the U.S. rivalry with the Soviet Union. The Glenninto orbit was the American response to the landmark Soviet Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space to the amazement of the Western world.

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