Labels:text | poster | mammal | graphic design | human face OCR: AMERICANS IN ORBIT ON FEBRUARY 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to go into orbit. His Mercury flight, in Friendship 7, took him around the Earth three times and lasted almost 5 hours. There were two more Mercury orbital flights before the final mission, when Gordon Cooper completed 22 orbits on a 34-hour flight. This made him the first American to spend more than a day in space. MAKING HISTORY Astronaut John Glenn in his SPLASHDOWN Mercury capsule John Glenn's capsule, Friendship 7, during his historic is winched out of the ocean orbital flight. after splashdown. GLENN IN ORBIT
