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Credit & Copyright: NASA
Explanation:
Space suited
project Mercury astronauts
John H. Glenn,
Virgil I. Grissom, and
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
(left to right) are posing in front of a
Redstone rocket
in this vintage 1961 NASA publicity photo.
Project Mercury was the
first U.S. program designed to put humans in space.
It resulted in 6 flights
using one-man capsules and
Redstone and
Atlas rockets.
Shortly after the
first U.S. manned flight on May 5, 1961, a suborbital flight piloted
by Alan Shepard, President Kennedy announced
the goal of a manned lunar landing by 1970.
This goal was achieved by NASA's
Apollo program and Shepard himself
walked on the moon
as commander of the Apollo 14 mission.
Virgil Grissom died in a tragic fire
during an Apollo launch pad test in 1967.
Senator John Glenn will fly again on the 25th voyage of the
Space Shuttle Discovery.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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