NASA selects 10 new astronauts from among 8,000 applicants and begins training that will take them into orbit, to the Moon, ...
On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” ...
Explorer 6, launched August 7, 1959, from Cape Canaveral, had a primary mission to investigate Earth's magnetic fields, radiation, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, and micrometeorites. The satellite ...
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