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Godspeed the SS John Glenn: Cargo ship named for late Mercury astronaut [i]The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station will launch under the name of the first American to orbit Earth, lifting off atop a modern version of the rocket on which he made history. Orbital ATK on Thursday (March 9) revealed it has named its seventh station-bound Cygnus cargo freighter the "S.S. John Glenn," posthumously honoring the original Mercury astronaut and U.S. Senator.[/i]
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