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CBS News Extra: Project Mercury flight of Frienship 7: With Richard Bates, Joseph Campbell, Gordon Cooper, Walter Cronkite. Ten-part live "CBS News Extra" coverage of the Project Mercury flight of the Frienship 7 space capsule and astronaut Lt. Col. John Glenn who thus becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
An Atlas launch vehicle propelled a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit and enabled Glenn to circle Earth three times. The flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds before the Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down in the ocean.
12 de feb. de 2024 · Mercury-Atlas 6: Friendship 7. An Atlas launch vehicle propelled a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit and enabled astronaut John Glenn to circle Earth three times. The flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds before the Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down in the ocean.
17 de feb. de 2012 · NASA. On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn was launched into orbit aboard Friendship 7. Glenn was one of seven astronauts in America's seminal Mercury program, and this photograph, of Glenn's launch,...
12 de feb. de 2024 · Circling the globe three times, his flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds before the Friendship 7 spacecraft splashed down in the ocean.
16 de feb. de 2021 · CBS-TV. Publication date. 1962-02-20. Topics. friendship 7, mercury atlas 6, john glenn, 1962, cbs. Language. English. From a set of three reel-to-reel tapes covering most of the flight and recovery of the Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6)--one tape per orbit.
CBS News Extra: Project Mercury flight of Frienship 7 (TV Mini Series 1962) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
