Talk:First American in Space, February 20, 1962, by Anonymous
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You wrote my husband a note on the day you came back from space. It said as I was leaving this world You were coming in to this world.My husband treasure's this. I would like to say thank you.
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John Glenn not First American in Space !
Alan Shepard was the first American in Space. He did a Suborbital flight on On May 5, 1961, in the Freedom 7 spacecraft. John Glenn was the second American in Space and the first to actually Orbit the Earth.
