The Deep Space Network’s third 26 meter antenna near Johannesburg, South Africa was completed. The station was favored because it…
Spacesuit Test for Alan Shepard
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in flight couch for final check before insertion into capsule for his Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3)…
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is being assisted by a technician in getting into his space suit at 2:45 a.m. this…
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is being helped into the lower half of his pressure suit for the Mercury-Redstone 3…
Astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn at breakfast before Shepard’s Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) spaceflight.
President Kennedy addressed a joint session of Congress stating that the US would send a man to the Moon and…
Alan Shepard piloted his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule for a 15 minute suborbital flight with no communication glitches. He was…
Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a…
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) used the same antennas built for Project Echo to conduct radar experiments to determine Venus’…
