AsNASA’s first crewed space flight project, the Mercury program consisted of six manned missions and famously flew seven crew members – the Mercury 7 –the first US astronauts in space. In 1962, as part of the
Even though Project Gemini immediately preceded Project Apollo, the Mercury program set a course for the young NASA to eventually reach the Moon. The creation of NASA from military assets and NACA, its early administrative personnel and structure, as well as its first steps in Project Mercury ...
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NASA human spaceflight programs NASA's spaceflight history has been covered in numerous books, but its notable astronaut programs include: Project Mercury: The first human spaceflight program that sent single astronauts into space. It sent its first astronaut (Alan Shepard) to space on May 25, 196...
NASA/JPL-Caltech No human has ever been to Mars. So the best information that we have about ancient Mars' beginnings 4.6 billion years ago generally comes from Martian meteorites, images taken by Mars orbiters and landers, and comparisons with other planets in the solar system like Mercury,...
Kennedy challenged the newly created NASA to land men on the moon and return them safely in his famous 1961 "Moon Speech" at Rice University in Texas. Preparation for Apollo came from NASA's Mercury program, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and sent one-person crews into orbit to see if ...
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NASA chooses UTD physics professor Philip Anderson to lead a historic investigation to chart Earth’s poorly understood ionosphere-thermosphere. NASA is calling this ground breaking investigation the Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission, and it
As it happens, on that day NASA announced the end of the Mercury program, the small capsules with just a single astronaut. Next up, the much more sophisticated, and much more ambitious, missions of Gemini. But the last Mercury flight was May 1963, and the first manned Gemini flight woul...
Oct. 13: NASA launches Explorer-7 to conduct the first measurements of reflected UV and infra-red radiation from Earth, along with monitoring Sun's electromagnetic rays. October: The US Mercury program begins. Nov. 8: US Air Force's Thor-Able rocket launches the Pioneer-2 lunar orbiter, bu...