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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 ...
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