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Spotting spacecraft: John Glenn's Friendship 7 'found' in Texas [i]If it was located almost anywhere else in the country, the sight of a space capsule sitting alongside a typical suburban intersection might seem out of place. But in Pasadena, Texas, located only about 20 minutes from NASA's Johnson Space Center where retired rockets, capsules and even a space shuttle pepper the landscape as lawn ornaments, it is easy to see why such a spectacle might be taken for granted. But there at the corner of Red Bluff Road and St. Augustine Avenue, opposite a gas station, a cash loan store, and an elementary school, sits John Glenn's 1962 Mercury spacecraft, "Friendship 7." Or to put it more accurately, there is a fairly faithful replica of the small capsule that Glenn rode to become the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth...[/i] (Additional photos of the same model from February 2005, before its restoration, can be seen on [URL=http://www.americanspacecraft.com/pages/mercury/merc-pasa.html]A Field Guide to American Spacecraft[/URL].)
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