Space Flag -- Americas first orbital astronaut, Marine Lieutenant John H. Glenn, Jr., presented a flag which he carried with him in his space capsule, Friendship Seven, to the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant General Charles H. Haye
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