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Heat shield of Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7, pictured on arrival at the Science Museum
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Heat shield of Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7, pictured on arrival at the Science Museum
Heat shield of Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7, pictured on arrival at the Science Museum, London, Monday 14th May 1962.
The space capsule was piloted by astronaut John Glenn (20/02/1962), who performed three orbits of the Earth, making him the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth and the third US astronaut in space (behind 1st Alan B. Shepard and 2nd Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom)
Tony Eyles
Daily Herald
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