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Surrounded by spacecraft models, Walter Cronkite, right, listens to astronaut and politician John Glenn on Feb. 8, 1967. As one the first astronauts with NASA's Mercury program, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962. He returned to space on the space shuttle Discovery in 1998.

(Photo: CBS Photo Archive)

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