Q. The first American Astronaut to ORBIT the Earth was

A
Alan Shepard
B
John Glenn
C
Gus Grissom
D
Scott Carpenter
Solution:

He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation’s first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space.

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