Astronauts: John Glenn, February 1962: 25-26

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Astronauts: John Glenn, February 1962: 25-26

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47724820

This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.'s successful completion of the Mercury-Atlas 6 test flight, also known as the Friendship 7. Materials in this folder include congratulatory correspondence between President Kennedy and foreign heads of state, including Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, President Eamon de Valera of Ireland, and Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Chief of the Spanish State. This folder contains some foreign language material.

107 pages

John F. Kennedy Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11615356

John F. Kennedy Library

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Glenn, John, 1921-2016

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t54gzv (person)

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (b. July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Guernsey County-d. December 8, 2016, Columbus, Ohio), astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio. He attended public schools of New Concord, Ohio, and later graduated from Muskingum College. Glenn served in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1965, and was later a test pilot and joining the United States space program in 1959. He was selected as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. In February 1962, Glenn became the first American...

De Valera, Eamon, President of the Republic of Ireland

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63v9cvj (person)

Epithet: President of the Republic of Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x0003e1 ...

Friendship 7 (Spacecraft)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc5vh3 (corporateBody)

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66t1cct (person)

Premier of the Soviet Union. From the description of Reminiscences of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev : oral history, 1967-71. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743617 ...

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6387zpq (person)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Project Mercury (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6129mmr (corporateBody)

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...

Macmillan, Harold, 1894-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r89465 (person)

Biographical/Historical Note Prime minister of Great Britain, 1957-1963. From the guide to the Harold Macmillan speech, 1960, (Hoover Institution Archives) Prime minister of Great Britain, 1957-1963. From the description of Harold Macmillan speech, 1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869741 Publisher and later British Prime Minister. From the description of Letter : London, to Ralph Ho...

Spain, Presidents, etc. Francisco Franco Bahamonde

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jj3g5g (person)

Epithet: Presidents, etc. Francisco Franco Bahamonde British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001392.0x0001d5 ...