Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Human Exploration
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Mercury-Atlas 6 was the third crewed spaceflight for the United States. The spacecraft, named Friendship 7, completed three orbits making John Glenn the first United States astronaut to orbit Earth. The mission lasted for 4 hours, 55 minutes & 23seconds.
