Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
19159
Points per Word
0.000157
Description
On February 20, 1962, as millions of Americans waited anxiously, astronaut John Glenn blasted off in his rocket ship, Friendship 7, and became the first American to orbit the Earth.