Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was also ...
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NASA’s Forgotten Escape Plan for Astronauts
From the days of the Mercury space program, the means of evacuating astronauts from a burning or otherwise compromised rocket vexed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known just ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program ...
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The four-inch spaceflight: How Mercury-Redstone 1 nearly ended America’s first human space program
In 1960, NASA’s Mercury Redstone 1 test rose just four inches off the pad, leaving a fully fueled rocket armed and dangerously unstable. The humiliating failure exposed how fragile early American ...
Scott Carpenter, one of two remaining astronauts from NASA’s Mercury program and the second American to orbit the earth, died Wednesday at the age of 88. His family did not specify a cause of death, ...
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