Jan 27 1962

From The Space Library

With the countdown at T-29 minutes, NASA postponed the first U.S. manned orbital flight until February 1 because of cloud cover at the launching site that, would have precluded adequate tracking of the vital first minutes of the flight. Astronaut John H. Glenn had been in the Mercury capsule atop the Atlas launch rocket for more than 5 hours when the launch was postponed.

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