says that richard branson will be on its next sub orbital flight is tset to launch july 1. maybe a coincidence, but that is more than a week earlier than jeff bezos plans to take on his blue origin company spacecraft. last month bezos announced he and his brother would be joined by 82-year-old wally funk, making her the oldest person to have flown in space. she was a pilot who trained for the mercury program in the 1960s but denied a chance to go to space. thanks so much for watching. early start is next.
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5 for 50: 5 Polymers that are out of this world
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From the Mercury Program to Mars, Apollo to Artemis, the Space Shuttle to SpaceX, elastomers, in all their earthly iterations, have found a home in air and space.
Even the 19th-century origins of rubber, where vulcanization finds its etymology in the term Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, demonstrate that the compound perhaps always had aspirations beyond terra firma.
Indeed, rubber, plastics, silicones and every polymer in between have made air and space travel possible, from the textile fabric fashioned to the airfoil of the Wright Flyer to the fabric fashioned around the Goodyear Blimp.
It was the height of the Cold War and the beginning of what came to be called the Space Race 60 years ago on May 5, 1961, when Alan Shepard was launched into space on a 15-minute suborbital flight.
The achievement marked the start of manned space flight for the U.S., coming less than a month after Yuri Gagarin orbited the planet for what was then the Soviet Union. That was on April 12, 1961.
Linda Godwin was an 8-year-old girl growing up in Jackson when the first manned U.S. space flight occurred. It was otherwise a really turbulent decade, Godwin said Monday of Shepard s flight. The first step is always remembered. The journey began with that first step.