John Glenn Portrait with Atlas Rocket

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Stock #:1033507
Type: Postcard
Era: Chrome
Publisher: Joseph F. Morsello
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Publisher's Series #: 545018
Additional Details:
Head and shoulders portrait of John H. Glenn, Jr. wearing a suit and bow tie, smiling, with an Atlas rocket in the background. The bottom of the postcard has a red and blue stripe. The back of the postcard reads:

JOHN H. GLENN, JR., LIEUT. COLONEL, USMC
The first American Astronaut to orbit the earth. The three-orbit voyage was made in Friendship 7, seen in the background. The Mercury capsule, atop an Atlas Missile, was put into historic orbital flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida on February 20, 1962 at 9:47 a.m. EST.

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