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NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. took 29 color photographs of the Earth with a 70mm camera as he orbited…
On the morning of May 5, 1961, the Mercury-Redstone 3 launch vehicle lifted into the sky from Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
Project Mercury: 1961–1963 Filename Transcript MR03_TEC.PDF Mercury-Redstone 3 Postlaunch Memorandum Report, June 16, 1961, 7 pages MR04_TEC.PDF Mercury-Redstone 4 Results…
The Mercury 7 On April 9, 1959, reporters and news media crammed into the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House…
On Nov. 5, 1958, NASA, newly established to lead America’s civilian space program, formally established the Space Task Group (STG)…
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Circling the globe three times, his…
This series of diagrams should be especially interesting and useful for modelers and other space enthusiasts who want to see…
Born barely 20 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, Alan Shepard grew up to fly combat missions in World…
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