What happened in the 1960s?
π John Glenn orbits the Earth, boosting U.S. morale during the Space Race (1962)
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John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 (nasa.gov)
Glenn's historic mission lifted U.S. morale, kicked off space race (cbsnews.com)
Astronaut John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Mission | National Archives (archives.gov)
History in a Nutshell | The Space Race | Season 1 | Episode 4 - PBS (pbs.org)
The Myth of John Glenn's Seven-Orbit Mission (si.edu)
The Space Race: how Cold War tensions put a rocket under the ... (sciencefocus.com)
John F. Kennedy and the Space Race (whitehousehistory.org)
A Brief History of Space Exploration | The Aerospace Corporation (aerospace.org)
The Space Race - Miller Center (millercenter.org)