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MiG-105 Spiral: The Little-Known Soviet Starfighter
The Spiral’s primary mission, had it made it beyond the test stage, would have been a combination of reconnaissance and ...
NASA Celebrates 97th Birthday Of Jim Lovell, The Real Life Tom Hanks Of Apollo 13 Mission
Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...
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60 Years On: Gemini III Pioneered Path to the Moon
Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first ...
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Gemini III: 60 Years Since First U.S. Two-Person Flight
On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...
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Apollo 10, Soyuz capsule among artifacts moving to new space gallery in London
The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...
This Word Means: Splashdown
It is the method favoured by American spacecraft – such as NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo – to re-enter Earth. In a ...
Secrets of new space race from dark death speech to astronauts who can't walk
While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other ...
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SpaceX capsule returns NASA astronauts after nine months aboard ISS
SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday evening, bringing astronauts Barry ...