NASA Mercury Capsule Friendship 7                                                 click image for detail view

John Glenn, Friendship 7, Project Mercury, NASA, Cape Canaveral, First orbital flight, Launch Complex 14

Blasting off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 14, on February 20, 1962 at 9:47:39 EST, Friendship 7 took John Glenn to a successful 3 orbit flight, which made him the first American to do so.

Friendship 7 reached an altitude of 162.2 x 100 statute miles and a velocity of 17,544 mph. Total flight time was 4 hrs, 55 min, 23 sec. Distance covered was 75,679 statute miles. Max G - 7.7.

The Mission Statement read, "Place a man into orbit, observe his reactions to the space environment and safely return him to earth to a point where he can be readily found. o a point where he can be readily found."

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