50th Anniversary of Mercury Orbital Flight

// February 20th, 2012 // Space Stuff & NASA

We just passed the 50th Anniversary (wow!) of the Mercury orbital flight by astronaut John Glenn, hence why you’ve been seeing John Glenn around much these past few days. The photos in the video below give a lot of perspective on the event a half a century ago.

Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson made a good point earlier today on Twitter. America was able to send a man into space 50 years ago, but can’t currently do that feat today.

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