On this date: NASA selects developer of Mercury spacecraft
NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first ...
On this date: NASA selects contractor to build Mercury capsule
NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first ...
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Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named the sea service’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS ...
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On this date: NASA selects developer of Mercury spacecraft
Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom. Jerrie Cobb poses with a Mercury capsule at Kennedy Space Center. Cobb spent nearly three years in the early 1960s trying to convince government leaders ...