History Challenge 02/15/10 Friendship 7
This Weekly History Challenge is now closed. Check comments section below for the answer and winner information.
This week’s prize is the book “Destination Moon: The spiritual and scientific voyage of the eight man to walk on the moon“
On February 20th, 1962 this Astronaut became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft.
A) Alan Shepard B) Virgil “Gus” Grissom C) John Glenn D) Neil Armstrong E) Yuri A. Gagarin
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Answer: C) John Glenn
Winner: Tim from Kokomo, IN
The Resource for this week’s history Challenge came from the following books and websites:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6813