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Il y a 4 jours · U.S. astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain on May 5, 1961, after the return of his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 (in background) from the first crewed suborbital flight.
- Alan B. Shepard, Jr
In 1959 he became one of the original seven astronauts...
- Alan B. Shepard, Jr
Il y a 5 jours · April 9 – NASA Group 1 – Mercury Seven (USA) Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959.
Il y a 5 jours · For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed he was. Grissom crewed the Liberty Bell 7 mission, a ballistic test flight that...
Il y a 1 jour · Apollo 11, U.S. spaceflight during which commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Edwin (“Buzz”) Aldrin, Jr., on July 20, 1969, became the first people to land on the Moon and walk the lunar surface.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Il y a 4 jours · He was one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen. Armstrong is probably best known as the commander of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon, during which he became the first person to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Il y a 17 heures · L'astronaute Harrison Schmitt à côté d'un rocher de la vallée Taurus-Littrow lors de la mission Apollo 17 (13 décembre 1972). L'exploration de la Lune par des engins spatiaux constitue un objectif important dans les années 1950 dès le début de l'ère spatiale car cet astre, le plus proche de la Terre, est une cible relativement facile à atteindre tout en constituant un symbole fort.
Il y a 5 jours · Each Gemini mission carried two astronauts into Earth orbit for periods ranging from 5 hours to 14 days. The program consisted of 10 crewed launches, 2 uncrewed launches, and 7 target vehicles, at a total cost of approximately 1,280 million dollars.
