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The Mercury mission that forced NASA to rely on human piloting skills
One of the most remarkable moments in early space exploration occurred during the final mission of NASA’s Mercury program. Astronaut Gordon “Gordo” Cooper spent more than a day in orbit aboard the ...
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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 ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Andy Saunders, author of "Gemini and Mercury Remastered," talked about his process of remastering the most famous photographs of NASA's space program ...
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