Question: Which booster was used to send the 1st American into orbit?
Context: NASA's newest spacecraft, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV), will be the first American spacecraft since Project Apollo to use an escape system in the event of a launch abort, something its predecessor, the Space Shuttle, had for only its first four orbital test flights in 1981-1982.  Like the Apollo Command-Service Module (CSM), the Orion CEV will use the Launch escape system (LES), a solid-fueled tractor rocket that will be able to pull the Orion crew module away from a malfunctioning Space Launch System (SLS) rocket during the initial launch phase.  Based on the launch escape system found on the Soviet/Russian Soyuz spacecraft, the LAS, designed and manufactured by ATK for the Orion CEV, will be larger than the Soyuz version and will have more thrust than the Atlas 109-D booster that carried astronaut John Glenn into orbit in 1962. Henry Jackson (bapt.  October 19, 1747 – January 4, 1809) was a Continental Army officer from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War.  For most of the war he was colonel of Jackson's Additional Continental Regiment, which was redesignated the 16th Massachusetts in 1780.  He commanded the last regiment of the Continental Army, the 1st American, which was disbanded in 1784.  Jackson was a lifelong friend of Henry Knox another Continental Army officer, whose business affairs he was also heavily involved in. The Rolling Stones' 1965 1st American Tour was a concert tour by the band.  The tour commenced on April 23 and concluded on May 29, 1965.  On this tour, the band supported their album "The Rolling Stones, Now! ". Claire Lee Chennault (September 6, 1893 – July 27, 1958) was an American military aviator best known for his leadership of the "Flying Tigers" and the Republic of China Air Force in World War II.  Chennault was a fierce advocate of "pursuit" or fighter-interceptor aircraft during the 1930s when the United States Army Air Corps was focused primarily on high-altitude bombardment.  Chennault retired from the United States Army in 1937, and went to work as an aviation adviser and trainer in China.  Starting in early 1941, Chennault commanded the 1st American Volunteer Group (nicknamed "Flying Tigers").  One mission which never came to fruition was the bombing of Japanese cities; the bombers did not arrive before Pearl Harbor.  (B-29's started bombing from China in 1944, but they were not under Chennault's command.)  He headed both the volunteer group and the uniformed U.S. Army Air Forces units that replaced it in 1942.  He feuded constantly with General Joseph Stilwell, the U.S. Army commander in China, and helped China's leader Chiang Kai-shek to convince President Roosevelt to remove Stilwell in 1944.  The China-Burma-India theater was strategically essential in order to fix many vital elements of the Imperial Japanese Army on the Chinese mainland to limit their use against Allied forces advancing towards Japan in the two Pacific campaigns. The Rolling Stones' 1964 1st American Tour was the band's first concert tour of America.  The tour commenced on June 5 and concluded on June 20, 1964.  On this tour, the band supported their first U.S. album "The Rolling Stones".  The band played eleven shows in total, including two each on 6 and 7 June, and gave several performances on various television shows during the tour.  The band also recorded its next single, It's All Over Now, next British EP, 5 x 5, and much of its next US album, 12 x 5, at Chess Studios on 10 and 11 June. John Van Kuren "Scarsdale Jack" Newkirk (15 October 1913 – 24 March 1942) was a United States naval aviator and squadron leader with the 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG), also known as the Flying Tigers, who may have led the first American offensive mission of World War II.  Most of his combat experience was during the defense of Rangoon, Burma, from Japanese air attacks.  After the fall of Rangoon, his unit was operating from within China when he set off on his final mission, as part of an attack on Japanese airfields in Thailand. The China Air Task Force (CATF) was a combat organization of the United States Army Air Forces created in July 1942 under the command of Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault, after the Flying Tigers of the 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force were disbanded on 4 July of that month.  It consisted of the 23rd Fighter Group with four squadrons, the assigned 74th, 75th, 76th, and attached 16th Fighter Squadrons, plus the 11th Bombardment Squadron.  It was a subordinate unit of the Tenth Air Force in India, commanded by Brig. Gen. Earl Naiden and (from 18 August 1942) by Maj. Gen. Clayton Bissell.  "Chennault had no respect for Bissell as a combat airman," wrote his biographer Martha Byrd, and "Bissell had no respect for Chennault as an administrator."  Their relationship, she wrote, was ugly. 1st American Regiment, also known as Jackson's Continental Regiment of 1783-1784, was the last unit in the Continental Army, retained after the close of the American Revolutionary War.  This regiment, under the command of Colonel Henry Jackson of Massachusetts, was not the same unit as Jackson's Additional Continental Regiment of 1777, which had become the 16th Massachusetts Regiment in 1780 and had been disbanded in 1781.  Equally, this regiment should not be confused with the First American Regiment of 1784-1791, which was originally commanded by Colonel Josiah Harmar, has remained in service to the present, and is now the 3d United States Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio.  In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times. The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment) (RCAC)
Answer: Atlas 109-D booster