Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sixty years hence, it’s hard to appreciate just how much of ...
John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight took less than five hours. But the lessons NASA learned that day continue to propel the agency forward today. The United States was falling behind in the space race in ...
On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Ahead of Glenn's spaceflight, Panorama was in Cocoa Beach, to gauge the ...
On May 24, 1962, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth. Carpenter was one of NASA’s first group of astronauts known as the ...
7.99 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.) Vintage chromogenic print (c-print) on Kodak fiber paper 7.99 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.) “MA-6 hand held camera” written in blue pen and "EKC" (EKtaChrome) watermark on ...
Editor's note: It's been 60 years since John Glenn's mission aboard the Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. We're republishing this story on its impact, originally published in 2012, in honor of the ...
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