The Final Frontier

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Mercury Spacecraft, designed and built by McDonnell, St. Louis for NASA. Signed by the six astronauts who flew in the Mercury program: Alan B Shepard, Gus Grissom, J H Glenn, Jr., Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra and Gordon Cooper.
At 2:30pm EST on December 4, 1965, Gemini 7 blasts off from Cape Canaveral, carrying astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell into space for a mission that lasted 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes. (Please note this posted to the minute!!) (NASA)
10 Images from John Glenn’s First Mission to Space
Pioneering astronaut was first American to orbit earth
10 Images from John Glenn’s First Mission to Space
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10 Images from John Glenn’s First Mission to Space
Pioneering astronaut was first American to orbit earth
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
Space Launch System: NASA's Giant Rocket Explained (Infographic)
NASA SLS infographic, plus comparison with Saturn V and Space Shuttle.
Gemini 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Gemini Spacecraft...prettiest spacecraft we ever made...it looks like it belongs in space...
Return to Flight
Mission Specialist Stephen K. Robinson attached to a foot restraint on the International Space Station. Photo: NASA
Remembering Judy Resnik
Judith Resnick - April 5, 1949 – January 28, 1986 - was an engineer and a NASA astronaut who died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger during the launch of mission STS-51-L. Resnik was the second American woman astronaut, logging 145 hours in orbit. She was a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and had a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. The IEEE Judith Resnik Award for space engineering is named in her honor. She was born and raised in Akron, ...
SpaceX, ULA Transforming Historic Launchpads for Commercial Crew Flights
Renderings of United Launch Alliance's Atlas V crew access tower and SpaceX's modified-for-Falcon-rockets Launch Pad 39A. <br />