American astronaut John Herschel Glenn Jr. (1921-2016) looking into a space globe known as a "Celestial Training Device" at the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Glenn is shown here in February 1962, the same month he became the first American to orbit Earth on NASA's Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission.

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Location: Aeromedical Laboratory, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
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