http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/friendship-7%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fourth-orbit%e2%80%99/ Wed, 15 May 2013 19:26:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/friendship-7%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fourth-orbit%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-69233 Stephanie Moore Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:32:24 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=4275#comment-69233 This is a great article, indeed the display of friendship 7 took away all the allegations that the first landing on the moon wasn’t real. Thank you for sharing!

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/friendship-7%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fourth-orbit%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-49050 Steve Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:33:44 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=4275#comment-49050 wow! i remember now.. my grandma once lived in ceylon was the one among those 4 million people who witnessed the friendship 7. She told me a lot of stories about it. Thanks for sharing

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/friendship-7%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fourth-orbit%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-47058 Helder Ferreira Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:11:34 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=4275#comment-47058 Great article. I am so intrigued about early space travel and the more I read, the more I want to know.

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/friendship-7%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fourth-orbit%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-46803 B Thompson Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:36:30 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=4275#comment-46803 In January 2010 I visited the NASM for the first time. I was standing beside Friendship 7, looking inside it, when some short guy in a black, wide-brimmed hat and a black overcoat, came bustling up, placed his hand on the capsule, announced to the guy with him, “John Glenn’s Mercury. It was supposed to do seven orbits, but malfunctioned and had to abort after three. Moving on!” and off they raced towards Ed White’s Gemini, leaving me going “Huh? What? Wait!”
They must have been doing one of those See-The-Air-And-Space-Museum-In-Twenty- Minutes tours. Still, it wouldn’t hurt if Mr Black Hat got his facts right – Glenn’s mission was set for three orbits and achieved that. The malfunction Mr Black Hat may have been referring to was a faulty microswitch that showed the heat shield might have been loose. In the event, it wasn’t.

]]> http://blog.nasm.si.edu/space/friendship-7%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98fourth-orbit%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-46802 Hunter Holins Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:30:45 +0000 http://blog.nasm.si.edu/?p=4275#comment-46802 Nicely done Teasel. The story of people seeing our artifacts is too overlooked. Next you should write about the European Apollo tour organized by USAID…

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