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John Glenn was the first American (but third man) to orbit the Earth

It happened on 20 February 1962.

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The shoemaker’s cabinet and its modern corollary, the shoe shine stand

We’ve protected our feet from the elements for a very long time, perhaps for 50,000 years.

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A woman pilots a space shuttle

STS-63 Discovery was also the first flight of the Russian-American space program.