John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962) and Resource Materials

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Classroom Material
Keywords
Cold War space race astronaut
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History-Social Science History
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Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962) and Resource Materials

This resource group contains two facsimiles and a transcript of, and a background essay on John Glenn's February 20, 1962 in-flight communication with Mission Control. Glenn conducted the first manned space orbit of the earth during the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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PBS Learning Media

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