Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbit
Quick Read50 years and counting since John Glenn became 1st American to orbit Earth with Project Mercury
Photo credit: AP Photo | This Feb. 20, 1962 photo made available by NASA shows astronaut John Glenn during his space flight in the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft, weightless and traveling at 17,500 mph.
Sen. John Glenn speaks during an interview at
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The name still resonates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.
John Glenn.
Even astronauts -- not just the rest of us mere mortals -- get mushy talking about Project Mercury's "clean Marine" who led the country's charge into orbit.
As the world's most enduring and endearing spaceman gets set to celebrate what no other living astronaut...
