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The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) provided control and coordination of all activities associated with the NASA's Project Mercury flight operation as well as the first three Project Gemini flights (the first two had no crew). It was located on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, east of Samuel C. Phillips ...
www.scps.org is a web page devoted to the SCPS protocols and contains links to the protocol specifications, briefing material, and test results. [dead link ] (SCPS at the Wayback Machine (archive index)) The Open Channel Foundation distributes a free reference implementation of the SCPS protocols that includes a transport-layer PEP application.
He was able to fund the unofficial program, the Woman in Space program, [1] and invited 25 women to come and take the physical tests. Lovelace was interested in the way that women's bodies would react to being in space. Cobb was the first American woman (and the only one of the Mercury 13) to undergo and pass all three phases of testing.
All of the Mercury Seven eventually flew in space. They piloted the six spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and members of the group flew on all of the NASA human spaceflight programs of the 20th century – Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle.
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major.
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle was the first crewed spacecraft to land on the Moon (July 20, 1969).. This is a list of all crewed spacecraft types that have flown into space, including sub-orbital flights above 80 km, space stations that have been visited by at least one crew, and spacecraft currently planned to operate with crews in the future. [1]
The 18th Space Defense Squadron (18 SDS) is a United States Space Force Space Domain Awareness unit located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.The 18th SDS is tasked with executing command and control of the space surveillance network (SSN), maintaining the resident space object (RSO) database and managing United States Space Command's space situational awareness (SSA) sharing program ...