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Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. [4] Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet orbital flights Vostok 1 and 2 and American sub-orbital flights Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4.
Kennedy's speech on the nation's space effort delivered at Rice Stadium on September 12, 1962. The portion of the speech quoted on the left begins at 9:03. On September 12, 1962, a warm and sunny day, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of about 40,000 people, at Rice University's Rice Stadium. Many individuals in the crowd ...
1962 August 12 USSR First dual crewed spaceflight (Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich) First spacecraft-to-spacecraft radio contact First simultaneous flight of crewed spacecraft. First person to float freely in microgravity. Vostok 3 / Vostok 4: 1962 December 14 USA First successful planetary flyby mission . Mariner 2: 1963 June 16 USSR
1962 in spaceflight; The launch of Ariel 1, the first satellite not to be operated by the Soviet Union or United States. Orbital launches; First: 13 January: Last: 22 ...
In September 1962, NASA planned to launch four crewed CSM flights on the Saturn I from late 1965 through 1966, concurrent with Project Gemini. The 22,500-pound (10,200 kg) payload capacity [ 63 ] would have severely limited the systems which could be included, so the decision was made in October 1963 to use the uprated Saturn IB for all crewed ...
Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) was the fifth United States crewed space mission, part of NASA's Mercury program.Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight focused mainly on technical evaluation rather than on scientific experimentation.
1 March 1962 05:07 Scout X-1A: ST-8 Wallops LA-3: Successful Re-Entry 1 Suborbital NASA: Test flight 29 March 1962 07:27 Scout X-2: ST-9 Wallops LA-3: Successful P-21A Suborbital NASA: Ionospheric research 12 April 1962 16:00 Blue Scout I: D-7 Cape Canaveral LC-18B: Successful N/A Suborbital USAF: Test flight 26 April 1962 10:49 Scout X-2: S111 ...
Mariner 2 (Mariner-Venus 1962), an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program , it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1 .