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Why the Mercury Rocket’s Success Was Always Temporary
The Mercury rocket marked America’s first steps into human spaceflight, but its very design limited how long its success could last. In this segment, we look back at how the Redstone and Atlas ...
On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 14 to become the first American to orbit the Earth. Ahead of Glenn's spaceflight, Panorama was in Cocoa Beach, to gauge the ...
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OTD In Space - May 24: NASA Launches Aurora 7
On May 24, 1962, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth. Carpenter was one of NASA’s first group of astronauts known as the ...
It was the second rocket in a rare doubleheader launch day on the Space Coast, as United Launch Alliance launched its Atlas V rocket hours after Blue Origin's second launch of its New Glenn rocket.
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