Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7), NASA's first U.S. crewed orbital flight with astronaut John Glenn. Atlas LV-3B from Cape Canaveral LC-14 placed the Mercury capsule in LEO for three orbits, making Glenn the first American to orbit Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Atlas LV-3B flights
- Date and time
- 20 February 1962, 14:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1962-003
- Launches in 1962
- 5th of 81
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: Friendship 7
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