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German airmen assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The United Launch Alliance Delta IV first stage arrives on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 37. The Delta IV is the launch vehicle for the latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, known as GOES-P, developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA. Photo credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann KSC-2009-3931

A Scout launch vehicle is erected on a launch tower

U.S. Marines with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd

Two Soviet built, Iraqi-modified Scud B missiles and their launchers are on display

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, preparations are underway to roll NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, spacecraft secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from the Vertical Integration Facility to Space Launch Complex 41. Rollout is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Launch is scheduled for Nov. 18 during a window that extends from 1:28 to 3:28 p.m. Once positioned in orbit above the Red Planet, MAVEN will study its upper atmosphere in unprecedented detail. For more information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/maven/main/index.html. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2013-3957

Mercury MESSENGER Stamp Unveiling, NASA Mercury project

Expedition 38 Soyuz Rollout. NASA public domain image colelction.

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Mercury Project - The launch of the Little Joe booster for the LJ1B mission

Little Joe Launch Vehicle, NASA Mercury project

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Atlas IV mission - Launch pad

Mercury Project - The Little Joe launch vehicle for the LJ1 mission

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The Little Joe launch vehicle for the LJ1 mission on the launch pad at the wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia, on January 21, 1960. This mission achieved the suborbital Mercury cupsule test, testing of the escape system, and biomedical tests by using a monkey, named Miss Sam.

The Space Race began with a shock to the American public when the Soviet satellite Sputnik was launched in 1957. United states created NASA accelerate U.S. space exploration efforts and launched the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. The Soviet Union was first again when it puts the first human, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, into a single orbit on April 12, 1961. Shortly after this, on May 5, the U.S. launched Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight and reached its orbital goal on February 20, 1962, when John Glenn made three orbits around the Earth in the Mercury capsule. The Mercury space capsule was a pressurized cabin produced by McDonnell Aircraft and carried supplies of water, food, and oxygen for about one day. Mercury was launched on a top of modified Atlas D ballistic missiles. The capsule was fitted with a launch escape rocket to carry it safely away from the launch vehicle in case of a failure. Small retrorockets were used to bring the spacecraft out of its orbit, after which an ablative heat shield protected it from the heat of atmospheric reentry. Finally, a parachute slowed the craft for a water landing. Both astronaut and capsule were recovered by helicopters deployed from a U.S. Navy ship. The Mercury project missions were followed by millions on radio and TV around the world. Its success laid the groundwork for Project Gemini, which carried two astronauts in each capsule and perfected space docking maneuvers essential for manned lunar landings in the Apollo program announced just a few weeks after the first manned Mercury launch.

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little joe lj 1 mercury msfc marshall space flight center mercury project project early rockets rocket launcher high resolution lj 1 mission mercury cupsule test vehicle mission launch pad flight facility tests escape system miss sam rocket engines rocket technology nasa
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21/01/1960
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Project Mercury

The first human spaceflight program of the United States.
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Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, 35808 ,  34.63076, -86.66505
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Mercury Redstone II mission - Launch pad photos

A RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile is fired from a box launcher aboard the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV-63)

A close up of a picture of Muqtada al Sadr, on the rear assembly of the center RPG-7 portable rocket launcher, found by Iraqi Security Forces during a raid of a Muqtada al Sadr safe house in An Najaf, An Najaf Province, Iraq, is displayed, by U.S. Marine Corps Marines, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable, Sept. 21, 2004. These caches were found in different buildings among the city and are in direct violation of the peace agreement between the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Husaini al-Sistani, highest religious authority and leader of the Hawza (Najaf), and al Sadr, an agreement blessed by the Iraqi Interim Government. The 4th MARDIV is engaged in Security and...

A view of a missile being fired from the aft launcher aboard the guided missile cruiser USS TICONDEROGA (CG 47)

Mercury 1A Mission - Earth Views

US Army MIM-104 Patriot Missile M-109 launcher trailers, from Alpha Battery, 1ST Battalion, 1ST Air Defense Artillery, 31st ADA Brigade, Fort Bliss, Texas, are setup to receive launcher canisters, Base Camp McGregor Missile Range. The Patriot missiles will be used for air defense during Exercise ROVING SANDS '97, 18 April 1997.(Duplicate image, see also DD-SD-01-04270 or search 970418-F-6655M-101)

A view of an RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile shortly after a test launch aboard the destroyer USS MERRILL (DD-976)

A crew member inside an M-48 Chaparral low-altitude, self-propelled, surface-to-air missile system assists in the system's deployment during Operation Desert Storm

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - A glow appears beneath the Boeing Delta II rocket as it begins liftoff with its payload, the MESSENGER spacecraft, on top. Liftoff occurred on time at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT from Launch Pad 17-B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) is on a seven-year, 4.9-billion-mile journey to the planet Mercury. The spacecraft will fly by Earth, Venus and Mercury several times, as well as circling the sun 15 times, to burn off energy before making its final approach to the inner planet on March 18, 2011. MESSENGER was built for NASA by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. KSC-04pd1631

A NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile launches through its foam launcher cover during a shipboard self-defense live-fire exercise onboard the U.S. Navy Nimitz Class Air Craft Carrier USS HARRY S. TRUMAN (CVN 75) on May 21, 2007, while the TRUMAN is in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 2nd Class Kristopher Wilson) (Released)

A Soldier from 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment,

A view through the loading arm door of various missiles in the magazine of the aft Mark 26 missile launcher aboard the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS ARKANSAS (CGN-41)

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little joe lj 1 mercury msfc marshall space flight center mercury project project early rockets rocket launcher high resolution lj 1 mission mercury cupsule test vehicle mission launch pad flight facility tests escape system miss sam rocket engines rocket technology nasa