Sunday, February 19, 2012 John Glenn's First Orbiting of Earth -
February 20 - Today in History Through Collectibles On February
20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to completely
orbit the earth in a spacecraft. He was the third man to enter
space and a pioneer of the world's space exploration. The
amazing stamp collection archive of Colnect features a rarity in
the Maldives Space Explorations of US and USSR series with the
John Glenn and USA Mercury Spacecraft stamp. The space race
captured the attention of people all over the globe, as human
beings strove for the mastery of discovering what lay beyond
earth's atmosphere. John Glenn was pivotal to the US's voyages
into the great beyond, and on February 20 1962, he became the
first to actually orbit the planet. The achievements of Glenn
are beautifully represented on the rectangular two Maldivian
laari valued stamp of Maldives. It was issued in February of
1974, and is not only in great shape, but is strikingly colorful
and detailed. John Glenn and