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Hace 1 día · Mercury first appears in an image taken at 23:50 CEST (21:50 UTC) on 4 September, at a distance of 191 km. Closest approach was at 23:48 CEST at a distance of 165 km. The sequence ends around 24 hours later, on September 5, 2024, when BepiColombo was about 243,000 km from Mercury. During the flyby it was possible to identify geological features ...
Hace 1 día · Born: November 18, 1923. Died: July 21, 1998. Alan Shepard was an American astronaut who became the second person and the first American to travel into space. Shepard became a naval aviator in 1947 and received his test pilot credentials in 1950. He was selected for NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959.
7 de sept. de 2024 · Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6, also designated Friendship 7) was the first orbital flight of an American rocket with a human on board. The pilot was John H. Glenn, Jr. The objectives of MA-6 were to: (1) evaluate the performance of a man-spacecraft system in a three-orbit mission; (2) evaluate the effects of space flight on the astronaut ...
Hace 6 días · Updated on: September 7, 2024 / 2:42 AM EDT / CBS News. Leaving its crew behind in orbit, Boeing's troubled Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Friday and...
Hace 4 días · Gordon Cooper made the last flight of Project Mercury with Mercury-Atlas 9 on May 15, 1963. His flight onboard Faith 7 set another U.S. endurance record with a 34-hour and 19 minute flight duration, and 22 completed orbits.
Hace 1 día · Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore are not the only astronauts to have had their stay in orbit unexpectedly extended by months. A year and a half ago, a radiator on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked at ...
6 de sept. de 2024 · Mercury Atlas 9 (MA-9, designated also Faith 7) was the fourth and final manned orbital flight of the Mercury program. The pilot was L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. The objectives of MA-9 were to: (1) evaluate the effects on the astronaut of approximately one day in orbital flight; (2) verify that man can function for an extended period in ...
