Saturday, April 12, 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen. This ...
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn ...
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7.
The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon ...
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April 9, 1959: The Mercury 7 debut
In 1959, having determined that military test pilots would make the best astronauts, NASA began screening the records of 508 ...
The International Space Hall of Fame is inducting five new nominees into the Alamogordo facility. The nominees were chosen ...
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