The primary goals of Project Gemini included proving the techniques needed for the Apollo Program, to fulfill President John F. Kennedy’s goal: Land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the 1960s. One crucial technique to prove was rendezvous and docking, required for the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous …
Missouri History Today June 2, 1998: Astronaut Dr. Janet Lynn Kavandi takes off on the first of her three missions into space. Dr. Janet Lynn Kavandi was selected as a NASA astronaut in December, 1994 as a member of the 15th class of U.S. astronauts. She orbited the earth a total of 535 times. Kavandi …
The work of Missouri men and women was directly responsible for helping to send the first American into space on this date in 1961. Alan Shepard blasted off on the Mercury-Redstone 3 Space Capsule. The capsule had been manufactured at McDonald Aircraft. An estimated 45 million Americans watched the Freedom 7 streak Skyward for the …
Space, the “final frontier,” according to Star Trek. Another popular astronaut (albeit an animated one), Buzz Light Year declared “to infinity and beyond.” Light years away, space will actually be quite close on Saturday, April 6, 2023, in Kansas City.
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