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  2. First Man into Space - Wikipedia

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    First Man into Space is a 1959 independently made British-American [1] [2] black-and-white science fiction-horror film directed by Robert Day and starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, and Robert Ayres. It was produced by John Croydon, Charles F. Vetter, and Richard Gordon for Amalgamated Films and was distributed by Metro ...

  3. Russell Colley - Wikipedia

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    Russell Sidney Colley (July 22, 1897 – February 4, 1996) was a U. S. mechanical engineer who played a role in creating the spacesuits worn by the Project Mercury astronauts, including fitting Alan B. Shepard Jr. for his historic ride as America's first man in space on May 5, 1961.

  4. History of spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    On February 12, 1961, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 1 was the first flyby probe launched to another planet. However communications with the probe failed before it could complete its mission. [30] Venera 3, which also lost contact, marked the first time a man-made object made contact with another planet after it impacted Venus on March 1, 1966. [31]

  5. Man in Space - Wikipedia

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    "Man in Space" is an episode of the American television series Disneyland which originally aired March 9, 1955 on ABC. [1] It was directed by Disney animator Ward Kimball . This Disneyland episode (set in Tomorrowland ), was narrated partly by Kimball and also by such scientists Willy Ley , [ 2 ] Heinz Haber , [ 2 ] and Wernher von Braun , [ 2 ...

  6. Manhunt in Space - Wikipedia

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    Manhunt in Space is a 75-minute 1954 American science fiction film, consisting of three consecutive episodes of the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, which told a continuous story. It was released only on 16mm for home movie rental and television syndication.

  7. Vostok programme - Wikipedia

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    First man in space. Vostok 2: 6 August 1961: 1 d 1 h 18 m: 7 August 1961: Gherman Titov: First crewed mission lasting a full day. Vostok 3: 11 August 1962: 3 d 22 h 22 m: 15 August 1962: Andriyan Nikolayev: First simultaneous flight of two crewed spacecraft. Vostok 4: 12 August 1962: 2 d 22 h 56 m: 15 August 1962: Pavel Popovich: First ...

  8. Where no man has gone before - Wikipedia

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    Blogger Dwayne A. Day says the quotation was taken from Introduction to Outer Space, a White House booklet published in 1958 to garner support for a national space program in the wake of the Sputnik flight. [3] It read on page 1: The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that ...

  9. List of space travellers by first flight - Wikipedia

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    The most recent person and first geologist to have arrived on the Moon Vladimír Remek, 88th person in space and the first from a country other than the US or the Soviet Union Sigmund Jähn, 91st person in space and the first German Georgi Ivanov, 93rd person in space and the first Bulgarian Phạm Tuân, 97th person in space, and the first ...