Take a Ride with Alan Shepard Aboard Freedom 7
On this day in 1961, May the 5th at 9:34 a.m. Eastern time, NASA astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American to travel into space with the launch of his Freedom 7 vehicle atop a...
View ArticleWhat Would Happen to You if You Were Exposed to Space?
An empty Russian Orlan space suit released on Feb. 3, 2006 as part of the SuitSat experiment. We’ve all seen it in some form or another in science fiction movies: a character suddenly finds themself...
View ArticleWatch Ed White Perform the First American Spacewalk, 52 Years Ago Today
Today is the the 52nd anniversary of America’s first spacewalk, performed by NASA astronaut Edward H. White II on the afternoon of June 3, 1965 during the four-day Gemini IV mission. In NASA...
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