Traveler | 20. Februar 2012
50 years ago today, John Glenn was boosted into space on top of a Atlas LV-3B rocket. More precisely, he sat inside Friendship 7 (Mercury-Atlas 6) on top of the Atlas. Friendship 7 was a very cramped affair in deed. More detailed information on the mission is obviously available from the people resonsible, NASA. The [...]
Traveler | 18. Juli 2011
John Glenn, a living legend, celebrates his 90th birthday today. In case you actually do not know who John Glenn is (please feel really ashamed): He is the first American to orbit the earth and also, and far more impressively, the oldest man ever to go into space. In 1998, when he was 77 years [...]
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