CCM
Celebrate with us the 
50th Anniversary of
John Glenn's Orbit Around the Earth!
Monday, February 20th
10am - 5pm

The Updated Friendship 7 and
Mission Control Center

mission control    space capsule

capsule interiornew space console


john glenn    john glenn in capsule in color

  space suit      john glenn ins space suit
February 20th 1962, 50 years ago, John Glenn orbited the earth in the Friendship 7 space capsule.

Do you know who the President was when John Glenn was an astronaut? 

 

Find out at the museum's President's Day celebration. Try out the newly renovated Friendship 7 space capsule that now simulates the real mission with sound effects, visuals and lots of buttons to push. 

 

The highlight of the day will be from 12:30-1:30 when Adrienne and Kerry, two Mountview Road School teachers, will share their first hand experience at NASA. They will bring the same experiment that they did with magnets in NASA's "Weightless Wonder" . They will show pictures of their trip and answer questions. 

 

In addition, there will glove box experiments to try, space work suit to try on, a chance to see and touch a real replica of a space suit and time to make space related crafts to take home.

 

"On February 20, 1962, John Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit Earth. Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the Friendship 7 capsule carrying Glenn reached a maximum altitude of 162 miles and an orbital velocity of 17,500 miles per hour. After more than four hours in space, having circled the earth three times, Glenn piloted the Friendship 7 back into the atmosphere and landed in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda. Glenn's success helped inspire the great army of people working to reach the Moon."

 

 

The Community Children's Museum
77 East Blackwell Street
Dover, New Jersey 07801

973-366-9060