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Guide: Ladies and Gentlemen, as we enter this building, you'll notice a plaque over here at the corner of Hangar S. It has a picture of Astronaut John Glenn and President John F. Kennedy after Glenn's Freedom 7 mission, which was the first time an American orbited the Earth. Kid: How come they were here at this old building? Guide: Because this building is where America's first astronauts lived, trained, and slept during Project Mercury and the early part of Project Gemini as well. Now, let's go inside and see what it looked like at the time — the interior has been recreated from period photographs and oral histories from workers who were here at the time. It is hard to imagine what it would have been like to be here at the dawn of the space age, before people were routinely flying beyond our solar system as we do now, but places like this help us to understand that heritage.
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