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The Vostok 1 deception, how the Soviets rewrote the rules of space history
Yuri Gagarin's historic flight concealed a spinning, out-of-control capsule, a botched landing, and a cover-up that forced ...
Glenn, a small-town boy who later became one of Ohio's longest-serving U.S. senators, is remembered as the first American to ...
(WHSV) - Sixty-five years ago on May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American to go to space.
As NASA fought to catch up to the Soviet Union in the space race, they selected a Navy veteran as the first astronaut. But ...
On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch ...
In 1957, a stray dog named Laika became the first living being in orbit aboard Sputnik 2. Her mission, though tragic as she ...
On the morning of May 5th, 1961, 37-year-old Alan Shepard woke up, ate a breakfast (consisting of a filet mignon wrapped in ...
On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming ...
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