- Friendship 7 Spacecraft NASA - John Glenn - First American to Orbit Earth https://youtu.be/M1bvIK9WMOE?si=6VEI8fZlv5E2_E7a 3 comments space
- On Feb. 20, 1962, Glenn piloted NASA's Mercury capsule, known as Friendship 7, three times around Earth, matching the groundbreaking achievement of the rival Soviet Union, which launched cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit 10 months earlier. http://www.csmonitor.com/science/2012/0217/john-glenn-reflects-on-nasa-s-space-legacy-50-years-after-first-orbit 13 comments space