Topic devoted to training cosmonauts: the job is not only demanding but includes many facets. Indeed the cosmonaut must have the physical condition, scientific and technical knowledge, know how to adapt to survival situations...
United States: Mercury-Atlas Space Program 6. Astronaut John GLENN is the first American astronaut to make an orbital space flight around the Earth on 20 February 1962. John GLENN takes off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard the capsule Friendship 7. The destroyer Noa, ship of the American navy, retrieves it a few hours later, in the Caribbean Sea. It is transported by helicopter on an aircraft carrier.