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On This Day in Space! Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes 1st American to orbit Earth Space 20/02/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space John Glenn aboard the spacecraft Friendship 7 during his historic orbital mission of Feb. 20, 1962. John Glenn was the third American to launch into space and the third human to orbit Earth. Two Soviet cosmonauts had orbited Earth before him. He blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7 and circled the Earth three times.  The mission lasted close to 5 hours. After a bumpy re-entry, Friendship 7 splashe...

On this day, Jan. 11 ... 1989: Nine days before leaving the White House, President Ronald Reagan bids the nation farewell in a primetime address, saying of his eight years in office: "We meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world." Also on this day:  1861: Alabama becomes the fourth state to withdraw from the Union. 1908: President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims the Grand Canyon National Monument. (It would become a national park in 1919.) 1913: The first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, goes on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York. 1935: Aviator A...