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Jan. 21, 1960: Miss Sam launches
On Dec. 4, 1959, rhesus monkey Sam (named for the acronym for the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine) was launched on a Little Joe rocket attached to a Mercury spacecraft. The Little Joe rockets ...
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The Mercury 7 who launched America’s space dream
On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the Mercury Seven, its first astronauts, marking the dawn of America’s human spaceflight program. Chosen from hundreds of military test pilots, these men became ...
Bellcomm, Inc Technical Library Collection, Accession XXXX-0093, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. In 1958, Project Mercury was selected as the first American manned space ...
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