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50 Years Ago Today: Heuer Becomes First Swiss Watch in Space

Here's an excellent NASA video, to mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's orbital flight --

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/nasa_friendship_7_50th_anniversary_video

And here's our webpage about the Heuer stopwatch that made the flight with John Glenn --

http://www.onthedash.com/docs/Glenn.html

Wow . . . we almost missed another important anniversary!! I do need a better calendar.

Jeff

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