When Ham set off on his space flight in 1961, he paved the way for the first American to go to space months later.
Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...
On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...
On this date, President John F. Kennedy provides NASA with its strongest advocate for large space telescopes, James Webb ...
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14 Young Athletes Lost Their Lives After the American Eagle Flight CrashedThe figure skating community is in mourning after a devastating midair collision claimed the lives of 14 elite skaters, coaches, and family members. This heartbreaking event echoes the tragic 1961 ...
There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn (the first American to orbit the Earth) and Neil Armstrong (the first man ...
In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...
Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy ...
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My godfather was a Black aerospace engineer who worked on the Apollo moon mission. I knew his story had to be toldThe Other Moonshot, explores the experiences of three Black aerospace engineers in L.A. who overcame daily discrimination to ...
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