Italian towns split over moves to end honorary citizenship of Mussolini
Ustica stripped local recognition for fascist dictator in law snaring all those deceased, but debate continues elsewhere
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Ustica stripped local recognition for fascist dictator in law snaring all those deceased, but debate continues elsewhere
Some cities have revoked the dictator's citizenship but others have come up against local laws and a respect for history.
60 years ago, Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit Earth - but a series of glitches during re-entry almost cost him his life.
Donald K. “Deke” Slayton The Mercury 7 astronauts. Left to right: Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard and Wally Schirra. Photo By Hank Walker/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images What was NASA’s Project Mercury? NASA announced Project Mercury on 7 October 1958 as a new programme that would set in motion a boom in human spaceflight for the USA. The project’s goals were to put a crewed spacecraft into orbit around Earth, observe and collect data on the mission, and then return the human crew to Earth safely. At this point, very li...