From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...
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NASA’s Forgotten Escape Plan for Astronauts
From the days of the Mercury space program, the means of evacuating astronauts from a burning or otherwise compromised rocket vexed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known just ...
The crucial and groundbreaking Gemini missions came after the swaggering heroics of the Mercury flights, immortalized in book ...
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