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Visitors Viewing Friendship 7 (8723824600)
Summary
Photographer: Unknown
Date: late 1960s-c.1975
Type: Photographic print
Standard number: 82-3306
Summary: Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard. "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth. On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times. The space flight lasted 4 hours and 55 minutes, and "Friendship 7" landed in the Atlantic Ocean
Persistent URL: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_10759
Repository:Smithsonian Archives - History Div
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Date
1962
Source
Smithsonian Institution
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