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From the archives: Grissom’s infamous (and impactful) ocean landing turns 60 this week.
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Edward H. White II became the first American to perform an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) or "spacewalk" from the Gemini IV spacecraft on June 3, 1965. This image shows Gemini IV as it was formerly displayed in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall at the Museum in Washington,DC. The spacesuits have been removed.
In 1979, Tom Wolfe published The Right Stuff, a thrilling and personal account of the Mercury Seven – the Project Mercury Astronauts; the first seven Americans chosen to go into space. There are libraries of more detailed books on the subject, but none capture the spirit of the program and the times better than Wolfe’s masterpiece.
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Vintage photos from Gemini Space Program. Gemini 3 through Gemini 12
About one month before their mission, Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Eugene A. Cernan, and John W. Young held a press conference at the Kennedy
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Swimming in the lake, bunking in cabins and kissing in the woods. Those were the days. Well, now you can relive them with these adult summer camps.
Astronaut Edward White awaits Gemini IV's launch in the crew's ready room.
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John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a longtime US senator, died Thursday, according to the Ohio State University. He was 95.
In May of 1961 president John F. Kennedy sat before a special joint session of congress to formally announce the undertaking of sending an American to the moon (and safely returning said American back to earth) before the end of the decade. The scale of this objective was enormous, and the recently formed National Aeronautics […]
Of the great many men and women involved in the history of our species' excursions into outer space, NASA flight director Gene Kranz time and again distinguished himself as remarkable leader.
Dragon's recently new release of a 1/72 scale Gemini spacecraft. I recently spent a couple of pleasant weekends building Dragon's new 1/72 s...
On April 9, 1959, NASA named its first seven astronauts. The Mercury Seven or the “Original Seven” as they were called, were: Navy aviators M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra Jr. and Alan B. Shepard Jr.; three Air Force pilots, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton; and Marine Corps pilot John H. Glenn Jr.
