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Who Verified the Computation of John Glenn’s Orbit Around Earth?

John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American aviator in the United States Marine Corps before joining NASA to become one of the first men in space. Glenn was also the first man to go around the earth, but did you ever wonder who verified the computation of that particular mission? When NASA employed electronic computers […]

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