
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - In the Apollo_Saturn V Center at KSC, guests enjoy the comments of John Glenn Jr. during the dinner celebration of the 40th anniversary of American spaceflight. In the background is the Saturn V rocket. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft. That journey lasted nearly five hours. In 1998, 36 years later, Glenn flew on Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-95, orbiting the Earth for 218 hours
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February 24, 2002
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