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John Glenn's Spinal Flight
Four hours, fifty-five minutes, and twenty three seconds, was the amount of time John Glenn’s orbital flight around earth lasted. John was the first American to orbit the earth in outer space. The flight was an accomplishment that went down in aviation and aeronautical history; Glenn was also a pilot that went down in history, due to his distinguished flying

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