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The Rocket That Rose Just 4 Inches—and Changed NASA Forever
Before America could send astronauts into space, one test rocket barely cleared the pad—rising just four inches before ...
On May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space. He launched from Cape Canaveral on a Mercury-Redstone rocket in a space capsule named Freedom 7. This was the ...
The Redstone engine is one of the most significant developments in US rocket technology. This collection consists of 36 pages of 17 x 11 inch schematic drawings of the Redstone launch vehicle's ...
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The Astronaut that was 23 Days too Late - Mercury-Redstone 3
As the Soviet Union put the first man in space in April of 1961, the Americans were already preparing a similar mission. Project Mercury's objective was to launch an American astronaut into orbit and ...
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