Rocket Man: The Mercury Adventure of John Glenn by Ruth Ashby
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Subjects
GLENN, JOHN, 1921-_JUVENILE LITERATURE PROJECT MERCURY_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
This dramatic story of John Glenn's neardisastrous mission in Friendship 7 also takes young readers through his smalltown Ohio boyhood, his extraordinary experiences as a fighter pilot in two wars, and his life as an astronaut. On February 20, 1962, as millions of Americans waited anxiously, astronaut John Glenn blasted off in his rocket ship, Friendship 7, and became the first American to orbit the Earth. Although the risks of such a mission were well known, neither they-nor Glenn-knew the peril he was about to encounter.