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Inspecting Friendship 7
Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2011
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Image credit: NASA
Uploader comment: Astronaut John Glenn inspects artwork that will be painted on the outside of his Mercury spacecraft, which he nicknamed Friendship 7. On February 20, 1962, Glenn lifted off into space aboard his Mercury Atlas (MA-6) rocket to become the first American to orbit the Earth.
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