3 days after John Glenn's landmark space flight, President John F. Kennedy met the astronaut at the Launch Operations Center (now @NASAKennedy) #OTD in 1962 to present Glenn with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
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John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7
In February 1962, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. Both nations had developed spacecraft to send humans into space and selected a group of pilots to fly those spacecraft.Kelli Mars (NASA)
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