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Meet the two NASA Astronauts being added to the Astronaut Hall of Fame
What started as a commemoration of the Mercury Seven astronauts has grown significantly. Marsha Ivins, who flew on five space shuttle missions and also spent time on the former Russian space ...
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At 60 years, monument to NASA's Project Mercury still stands, but what of its time capsule?
The Project Mercury Monument located at the Cape Canaveral launch pad from where NASA astronauts first flew into Earth orbit was dedicated on Nov. 10, 1964 "to the thousands of men and women of ...
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living in space
Other Mercury astronauts had to endure bite-sized cubes, freezedried powders, and semiliquids stuffed in aluminum tubes. Most agreed the foods were unappetizing and disliked squeezing the tubes.
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Space odyssey
The original seven Mercury astronauts don their spacesuits in this 1961 file photo provided by NASA. From left, first row: Walter Schirra Jr., Donald Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.