http://wyrk.com Today's Country And Your All-Time Favorites Sat, 18 May 2013 10:36:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://wyrk.com/you-wont-believe-the-message-john-glenn-carried-into-space/ http://wyrk.com/you-wont-believe-the-message-john-glenn-carried-into-space/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:00:44 +0000 Dale Mussen http://wyrk.com/?p=176343 For a lot of people it’s ancient history because they weren’t even born yet. But many still remember John Glenn’s historic ride in a space capsule called “Friendship 7” that was only 6-feet wide and 9 ½ feet tall. It sent the future Ohio Senator 100 miles into space making him the first American to orbit the earth.

]]> http://wyrk.com/you-wont-believe-the-message-john-glenn-carried-into-space/feed/ 0 John Glenn entering his Friendship 7 space capsule (Getty Images)