Project Mercury - Image Gallery | NASA Dr. von Braun and

Project Mercury - Image Gallery | NASA Dr. von Braun and Astronaut John Glenn Dr. von Braun briefs Astronaut John Glenn in the control room of the Vehicle Test Section, Quality Assurance Division, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. With the Feb. 20, 1962 launch of the MA-6 spacecraft, Friendship 7, atop an Atlas vehicle, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Eart