50 years ago, John Glenn became America’s biggest hero

Regarding the United States was concerned, John Glenn February 20, 1962, flight aboard Friendship 7, would not have been considerably more important. considerably less than a year earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the very first man in space, and simply since the launch of Glenn, Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom Americans had already made their way to heaven,  See considerably more..