Atlas w/ Launch Pad/Mercury Capsule 50 Year Celebration

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

On February 20, 1962, John Herschel Glenn, Jr. pilotedthe Mercury Atlas Friendship 7 spacecraft on America’s first mannedorbital mission of the Earth. After Launching from Kennedy Space centerin Florida, Glenn successfully completed a three-orbit mission aroundthe Planet. The Mission lasted 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds fromlaunch to impact, and during it Glenn reached an orbital velocity of17,500 miles hour and a maximum altitude of approximately 162 miles.The flight was received with great enthusiasm and relief in the UnitedStates and many other countries, it also gave the United States evenmore hope of someday reaching the moon.