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[b]Friendship 7: Opening a New Era in Space[/b] [i]Forty-eight years ago, on Feb. 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth when an Atlas rocket successfully carried his Friendship 7 capsule into space. Glenn's three orbits of the planet ushered in a new era in space travel, paving the way for the Apollo astronauts to walk on the moon.[/i]
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