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of TV newsman Walter Cronkite coming out of almost every open window, ... He 
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. .... Alan Shepard gears up for his flight as the first American in space.

Question: In an almost 5-hour flight in 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth a total of this many times
Answer: 3