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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Original caption: CAPE CANAVERAL - Astronaut John H. Glenn, first American to orbit the earth, listens in on the voice communications of fellow Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter. Carpenter successfully completed three orbits of the earth on Thursday and was plucked from the Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico.</li></ul></div>
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24 May 1962<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1962-05-24T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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