Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...
February 20, 1962 – Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn is the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7. He spends four hours and 55 minutes in space and orbits the earth three times.
John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...
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How Do Space Programs Get Their Names? And More Questions From Our ReadersHow do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California NASA and others have long sought symbolic names ...
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This Astronaut Was Also A 'MiG Mad Marine' In The Korean War!All Mercury astronauts came from the fighter pilot community. But one of them had a career that really stands out. It was the only Marine among them, John Glenn. After flying Corsairs in WWII ...
October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project ... April 12, 1981 – Astronauts John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen fly Space Shuttle Columbia on the first flight ...
ROCKING: Accordionist, singer and washboard master Rockin' Dopsie Jr. will kick off Rockin' the Rails spring concert season ...
SUNSET: The spring season of Sunset at the Landing Concerts begin Mar. 21 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the foot of Columbia ...
training and flights of the Mercury 7 astronauts, including Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn), John Glenn (Ed Harris), Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), and Lance Henrikson as Wally ...
“Flint’s got a great record with speed. Two of the fastest man in the world, Herb Washington and Michael Miller. Louis ...
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