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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
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1966 homecoming for Neil Armstrong
Jun 27, 2019 Jun 27, 2019 Updated Jun 6, 2022 The Gemini 8 mission launched March 16, 1966, with Armstrong and fellow astronaut David Scott. While in orbit, Armstrong and Scott achieved the first ...
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A History Written in the (Lone) Stars
The history of Texas’ legacy in the space race from the ’60s-’70s is a storied one, and it started with a lot of hard work by the Lone Star State to get America’s astronauts up to the stars.