Atlas w/ Launch Pad/Mercury Capsule 50 Year Celebration

1/110 Scale. Molded in Gray and Yellow plastic with STEM
educational booklet, water slide decals. Over 150 parts! 

On February 20, 1962, John Herschel Glenn, Jr. piloted
the Mercury Atlas Friendship 7 spacecraft on America’s first manned
orbital mission of the Earth. After Launching from Kennedy Space center
in Florida, Glenn successfully completed a three-orbit mission around
the Planet. The Mission lasted 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds from
launch to impact, and during it Glenn reached an orbital velocity of
17,500 miles hour and a maximum altitude of approximately 162 miles.
The flight was received with great enthusiasm and relief in the United
States and many other countries, it also gave the United States even
more hope of someday reaching the moon.