See: Mercury-Redstone 3 - Freedom 7 launch - May 5, 1961
Alan Shepard was one of the Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959, and he holds the distinction of being the first American to journey into space. On May 5, 1961, in the Freedom 7 spacecraft, he was launched by a Redstone vehicle on
link to NASA webpage on Robert Goddard In 1914, Goddard received two U.S. patents. One was for a rocket using liquid fuel. The other was for a two- or three-stage rocket using solid fuel. At his own expense, he began to make sy
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link to full text in German with English translation on facing pages - Internet Archive
See: ABMA The Redstone missile was the first major project assigned to ABMA [Army Ballistic Missile Agency]. The Redstone was a direct descendant of the V-2 missile developed by the von Braun team in Germany during World War II.
book info excerpts: Late in 1950 The New Yorker sent one of its writers, Daniel Lang, to the Deep South—to the small, segregated city of Huntsville, Alabama. Little more than a sleepy Bible Belt cotton town before the U.S. Army bega
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See: Mercury-Atlas 6 - Friendship 7 launch - February 20, 1962
Mercury-Atlas 6 was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated by NASA as part of Project Mercury, it was the fifth human spaceflight, preceded by Soviet
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Greek <- Prometheus Bound -> English
book info excerpts: Oppenheimer’s decision to participate in the creation of a genocidal weapon was “a Faustian bargain if there ever was one. . . . And of course we are still living with it . . .” And like Faust, Robert Oppenheimer
link to film trailer In December 1938, nuclear fission is discovered, which Oppenheimer realizes could be weaponized. In 1942, during World War II, U.S. Army Colonel Leslie Groves recruits Oppenheimer as director of the Manhattan Project
link to Oppenheimer articles on Los Alamos National Laboratory website
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link to 1965 CBS interview with Robert Oppenheimer - 8 min. video
link to memoir - written by his friend and colleague, Hans Bethe See: about Hans Bethe
link to extensive biographical information and associations on AIP website
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link to full video - 1960 biopic I Aim at the Stars is a 1960 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Wernher von Braun. The film covers his life from his early days in Germany, through Peenemünde, until his work with
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See: Wernher von Braun
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link to AMCOM photos of Wernher von Braun
link to March 1968 interview with Wernher von Braun - 2-1/2 min. video … ( audio starts at 10 second mark )
film trailer First to the Moon: The Story of Apollo 8 is a 2018 documentary film about the second crewed spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, which launched on December 21, 1968. Apollo 8 was the first crewed
Saturn V - Apollo 11 launch - July 16, 1969
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link to full 2019 PBS American Experience video series (divided into 6 segments , 1 hour each segment) on DailyMotion Chasing the Moon is a 2019 American television documentary series by Robert Stone about the race to land a ma
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Saturn Apollo Program The crowning achievement for the Saturn V rocket came when it launched Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to the Moon in July 1969.
Space Launch System - Artemis I - November 16, 2022
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source Following two Artemis test missions, Artemis III, currently planned for 2025, will mark humanity’s first return to the lunar surface in more than 50 years. NASA will make history by sending the first humans to explore the region ne
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