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sep 14, 1964 - first USA manned orbit Mercury-Atlas 6

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John Glenn becomes the first american to orbit around the earth, and orbits three times. he did this on the Mercury-Atlas flight which was launched with a Atlas-D rocket and weighed 2980.65 pounds.

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sep 14, 1964
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~ 61 years ago

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