Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward is "revitalizing" the Friendship 7, the group that commissioned the "Understanding Racial ...

John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight took less than five hours. But the lessons NASA learned that day continue to propel the agency forward today. The United States was falling behind in the space race in ...

NEW CONCORD — The 60th anniversary of the orbital flight of Friendship 7 with John Glenn will be remembered Feb. 20 at the John and Annie Glenn Museum, 72 W. Main St., New Concord. The museum will ...

From the archives: April 9, 1962 NBC Special News Report: Flight of Friendship 7. NBC’s Frank McGee interviews astronaut John Glenn about becoming the first American to orbit the earth. Glenn’s ...

2012-02-18T09:22:23-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/642/303736-m.jpgOn February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. He ...

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