As NASA’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 Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit...
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...
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had only been in existence for three years, but already two spectacularly successful space missions completed by Soviet cosmonauts were having a dramatic effect on the civilian space agency's carefully planned, step-by-step human space flight program.doi...
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...
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
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,...
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,...
NASA is the United States space agency and was founded in 1958 to do human and robotic exploration of the solar system and to study the universe as well.
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...
The seven astronauts of the Mercury space programme suddenly find themselves jockeying for second place. => 水星太空计划的七名宇航员突然发现自己在争夺第二名。 It has been reported that either Gus Grissom, John Glenn or Alan B Shepard will be the first to fly the one-man Mercury space capsul...