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America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first flight around the Earth
At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Friendship 7 spacecraft brought astronaut John Glenn into orbit at exactly 9:47 am (local time) on February 20, 1962.
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The first American astronaut to fly around the Earth died
John Glenn, the first American astronaut circling Earth's orbit and the oldest man ever to enter space, died on December 8 at age 95.