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WIKIPEDIA INFO: Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was an American space mission, launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mercury spacecraft No. 5 carried Ham the Chimp on a suborbital flight, landing in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes, 39 seconds after launch.

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An American aerospace engineer, test pilot, and the United States Air Force pilot, Gordon Cooper, is also the youngest of… The post Gordon Cooper: The Project Mercury Astronaut Speaks About Seeing UFOs And Aliens appeared first on Infinity Explorers.

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(CNN) — Astronaut Scott Carpenter, the second American to orbit Earth, died on Thursday, NASA said. He was 88. “We, the whole NASA family, are mourning with Scott’s family. We have lost a true pioneer. I shall long remember him not only for his smarts and courage but his incredible humor. He kept us all […]

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The Redstone’s association with Project Mercury began as the result of a January 1958 meeting of top military personnel at the ABMA. The Department of the Army had proposed a joint Army, Navy, and Air Force program to send a man into space and back, under the project working title of “Man Very

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Is it a car? - Kind of. Is it a boat- Kind of! It's the fastest car on the water and the fastest boat on the road, it's the ambitious car-boat hybrid

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