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S64-14855 (1962) --- U.S. President John F. Kennedy pays tribute
to astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. for his February 1962 flight
aboard Friendship 7. The Mercury-Atlas 6 mission marked the
free world's first orbital manned flight. Vice-President Lyndon
Baines Johnson (for whom the Manned Spacecraft Center was later
to be named), NASA Administrator James Webb and Glenn family
members are among others also in the scene. |
