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5 giorni fa · A second group of nine astronauts was selected by NASA in September 1962. All of this group flew missions in the Gemini program except Elliot See, who died in a flight accident while preparing for the Gemini 9 flight. All of the others also flew on Apollo, except for Ed White, who died in the Apollo 1 launchpad fire.
2 giorni fa · 29 September 1962 Venus: Mariner 2: First planetary flyby with communication contact. Distance of 34,762 kilometres (21,600 mi). USA 14 December 1962 Earth: Lincoln Calibration Sphere 1: Oldest spacecraft still in use (59 years as of 2024). USA 6 May 1965 Mars: Mariner 4: First flyby and first planetary imaging. Distance of 9,846 ...
6 giorni fa · In 1962, Boulder community leaders dedicated Scott Carpenter Park and Pool in honor of native son turned Mercury astronaut. The park features at 25-foot tall climbable metal rocket spaceship. The now-closed Aurora 7 Elementary School, also in Boulder, was named for Carpenter's spacecraft.
3 giorni fa · The only one of the seven to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, Walter Schirra logged 295 hours and 15 minutes in space. In 1965, he occupied the Command Pilot seat on the Gemini 6 flight, which successfully rendezvoused with Gemini 7, which had already been in orbit. This was the first meeting of two manned maneuverable spacecraft ...
5 giorni fa · 20 Years Ago: NASA Selects its 19th Group of Astronauts. On May 6, 2004, NASA announced the selection of its 19th group of astronauts. The group comprised 11 candidates – two pilots, six mission specialists, and three educator mission specialists – and included two women, two Hispanic Americans, and one African American.
5 giorni fa · The CST-100 Starliner was first conceived in 2010, built on a long legacy of designing and building spacecraft for Apollo. The spacecraft measures 14.8 feet (4.5 meters) across and can fit up to ...
5 giorni fa · The launch was set to be the first time astronauts rode an Atlas since NASA’s Project Mercury, starting with John Glenn when he became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. NASA “We ...
