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Mandatory Credit: Photo by REX (7552972ci) Veteran United States spacemen await word from Project Mercury Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter as he returns to earth following 3 trips around the globe, at Cape Canaveral, Florida,. Left; Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom, pilot of Mercury's second suborbital mission, and right; John H. Glenn, Jr., first U.S. orbital astronaut. Grisson served as Capsule Communicator, assisted by Glenn, during Carpenter's flight. John Glenn