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The four-inch spaceflight: How Mercury-Redstone 1 nearly ended America’s first human space program
In 1960, NASA’s Mercury Redstone 1 test rose just four inches off the pad, leaving a fully fueled rocket armed and dangerously unstable. The humiliating failure exposed how fragile early American ...
From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, & Artemis II.
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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 ...
In a project of Herculean proportions, British author and historian Andy Saunders has returned to the NASA archives to follow up his epic "Apollo Remastered" photographic book from 2022 to create and ...
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