COLUMBUS, Ohio (WDTN) — Drivers in parts of Ohio might have seen an actual rocket being transported to the Miami Valley. Ohio State Highway Patrol Matt Bruning, press secretary for the Ohio Department ...
Following water egress training, Project Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter, Mercury-Atlas 7 prime pilot, still dons his Mercury pressure suit and a life vest. On May 24, 1962, astronaut Scott ...
On November 29, 1961, a handler holds hands with Chimpanzee Enos as he lay in his flight couch. Enos wears his spacesuit as he is being prepared for insertion into the Mercury-Atlas 5 capsule. After ...
Friendship 7 launched Feb. 20, 1962. Boosted by the Mercury-Atlas vehicle, a modified Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Friendship 7 was the first U.S. manned orbital flight, and carried ...
(Tribune News Service) — It was a nuclear missile before it was a space rocket. Now, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force has welcomed a restored replica to its permanent collection, and you can ...
The latest in an intermittent series looking back at groundbreaking, newsmaking, appalling and amusing events in government history. On April 25, 1961, NASA launched Mercury-Atlas 3, one in a series ...
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