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John Glenn climbs into Friendship 7 cabin for his flight in which he was the first American to circle the Earth. Photo: NASA

 John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, has died

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The Mercury capsule of the Mercury-Atlas 10 mission - "Freedom 7-II" - which was aborted. From Wikipedia

The history of the Mercury program - NASA's first organized manned program on the way to landing on the moon

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John Glenn explaining the structure of the Mercury capsule to his wife Anne during one of her visits to Langley in 1959. Photo: NASA

Fifty years since the first circumnavigation of the Earth by an American citizen by John Glenn

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