On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first hominid to travel into space, marking a critical milestone in ...
Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...
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Alan Shepard and Mercury-Redstone 3, the American spaceflight that came 23 days too late
In May 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3, just weeks after Yuri Gagarin’s historic orbital flight. This video explores how close the United States ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of twenty-one U.S. Navy photographs compiled for the press kit prepared for the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) mission as well ...
Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a model of unknown scale of ...
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