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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.
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.
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Results of the Second U.S. Manned Orbital Space Flight, May 24, 1962 NASA report - (PDF format) This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury - NASA report (PDF format) Project Mercury: A Chronology - NASA report (PDF format) NASA NSSDC Spacecraft Details; The short film Aurora 7 is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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 ...
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
NASA GCA Suborbital Aeronomy: 27 March: Successful Apogee: 117 kilometres (73 mi) 28 March 00:03 Nike-Cajun Wallops Island NASA NASA Suborbital Aeronomy: 28 March: Successful Apogee: 123 kilometres (76 mi) 28 March: R-5A Pobeda: Chelkar: RVSN RVSN Suborbital Target: 28 March: Successful Apogee: 500 kilometres (310 mi) 29 March 07:27 Scout X-2 ...
This is a list of NASA missions, ... Ranger 3, launched January 1962, failed; Ranger 4, launched April 1962, ... Code of Conduct;