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65 Years Ago: NASA Begins Operations

On Oct. 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially began operations. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the ....

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Royal Astronomical Society CANCELS NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

An interstellar row has broken out between the Royal Astronomical Society and Nasa over claims a former boss purged gay staff. ....

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Apollo 17: NASA's final Apollo moon landing mission in pictures

On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched its last Apollo mission to the moon: Apollo 17. See photos from the historic mission here. ....

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NASA rejects petition to rename $10bn James Webb telescope

James Webb, who served as NASA s administrator from 1961-68, was chosen in 2002 to be honored by naming a telescope 25-years in the making after him. The decision has become controversial. ....

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PM and the Mercury Astronauts | Mercury Astronaut History

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I Lived With the Astronauts : PM at the Beginning of U.S. Spaceflight
In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight.
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Joseph N. Bell
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On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard packed into the cramped Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket and blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA astronaut climbed to an altitude of 116 miles above Earth s surface and became the first American to reach space. His flight lasted just 15 minutes, but it cemented his legendary status as one of the most daring explorers in our nation s history. ....

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