It's That Time Of Year

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, circling the globe three times in the Friendship 7 spacecraft. 🚀

In 1998, Glenn made another journey into space, becoming the oldest person to do so when he joined the STS-95 mission. Check out this Transcript of John Glenn's Official Communication with the Command Center (1962): https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/john-glenns-official-communication-with-the-command-center

Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by Hugh Aplin, from "Poor People," originally written in 1846

" P o p u l a r E l e c t r o n i c s. "