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 theMercury-Atlas 6 mission, John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit Eart...
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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The Gemini spacecraft took 20 astronauts to space and back. Find out how the Gemini spacecraft took NASA one step closer to landing on the moon.
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, 1961...
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
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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...
Preparation for Apollo came from NASA'sMercury program, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and sent one-person crews into orbit to see if humans could survive and work in space. That was followed by the agency'sGemini program, which ran from 1962 to 1966 and included two-person missions that te...
Along with chalking up the first piloted flight of the Starliner, it will be the first launch of astronauts using an Atlas rocket since Gordon Cooper's final Mercury flight more than 60 years ago. While hundreds of Atlas rockets have been launched since then, the latest-generation...