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Space Rocket History #28 - Vostok 2 With Gherman Titov
After Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom’s suborbital flights and less than four months after Gagarin’s became the first man in space, the soviet union...
Space Rocket History #27 - Mercury-Redstone 4 - Liberty Bell 7 with Gus Grissom
Mercury-Redstone 4 was the fourth mission in the Mercury-Redstone series and the second U.S. manned suborbital spaceflight. The mission was essentially...
Space Rocket History #26 - Why the Moon?
“We have been plunged into a race for the conquest of outer space. As a reason for this undertaking some look to the new and exciting scientific discoveries...
Space Rocket History #25 - Mercury Redstone 3 - Freedom 7 with Alan Shepard
Over 52 years ago, in the early hours of May 5th, 1961 the US prepared to launch its first man into space. Three weeks earlier, the Soviet Union had...
Space Rocket History #24 - Mercury Redstone Test Flights - Ham in a Can
The objectives of the Mercury Project, were as follows:
1. Place a manned spacecraft in orbital flight around the earth.
2. Investigate...
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