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In 1961, the First American Who Flew Into Space Wanted to Pee in His Space Suit - Here’s What NASA Did Next
In 1961, the First American Who Flew Into Space Wanted to Pee in His Space Suit - Here’s What NASA Did Next In the golden age ...
Ed Smylie, engineer who helped save Apollo 13 crew, dies at 95
Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...
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Remembering John Glenn’s historic return to space
“But if John Glenn can go back to space at age 77,” the old-timer continued ... During the countdown, Project Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter spoke with the STS-95 astronauts over ...
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Godspeed, Stoke Space! Rocket startup gets John Glenn’s launch pad at the Cape
An artist’s conception shows Stoke Space’s reusable second ... Launch Complex 14 was the site for John Glenn’s historic liftoff and for the three Mercury-Atlas missions that followed.
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Unearthed photos show John Glenn’s orbit of Earth on 60th anniversary
On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn set out on NASA's three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission aboard ... for launch for more than two hours before the space flight as well as in orbit, watching the booster ...
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Stunningly remastered photos from John Glenn's historic first orbit of the Earth released to mark 60 years since he became the first American to go around the planet
To mark the 60th anniversary of Mercury 7 astronaut John ... movie' film,' he told DailyMail.com. John Herschel Glenn was the third American in space, after Alan Shepard and Virgin Grissom ...
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Was the Space Program Worth the Cost?
By Mark Atwood Lawrence MERCURY ... Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War By Jeff Shesol Hyperbole shrouds few topics in history so much as the human encounter with outer ...
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How John Glenn’s Encore Space Flight Lifted U.S. Spirits
Now held in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum are a 35 mm camera (left) and a digital camera. Each was used by John ... oldest Mercury astronaut. When Glenn ...
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Inspired by John Glenn's example
NEW CONCORD - John Glenn set an example of what was needed to accomplish a goal. Passing on his legacy remains the objective of the Reach for the Stars Space ... used in the Mercury program.
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Who Were the Original Mercury Seven? NASA's First Astronauts Included John Glenn, Alan Shepard
They later became known as the Mercury Seven for Project Mercury, the program tasked with sending the first Americans into space to orbit ... Slayton, Glenn, Carpenter.... The first seven ...
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Astronaut John Glenn made history on this day in 1962
On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn rocketed into space aboard Mercury's Friendship 7 spacecraft. The craft circled Earth three times in 4 ...
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Cargo ship named after John Glenn docks with space station
April 23 (UPI) --The commercial cargo ship named after astronaut John Glenn is now safely attached to the International Space Station ... Saturn and Mercury in the eastern sky on Friday morning.