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Missions, Moon, NASA, Solar System, Space Exploration, Space Flight, Space Shuttle, Space Station

50th Anniversary Ceremony Recreates First US Manned Spaceflight by Alan Shepard

10 May , 2011 by Ken Kremer

[/caption] NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first American manned spaceflight at a special ceremony on May 5, 2011 which recreated every moment of that short suborbital flight by the late Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard. The event unfolded from the very spot and launch pad 5/6 where he blasted off from Cape Canaveral […]

50th anniversary of Human Spaceflight, Alan Shepard, Apollo 13, Apollo 14, Fra Mauro, Mercury capsule, Mercury Redstone rocket, NASA, President Kennedy, Project Apollo, Project Mercury, Yuri Gagarin

Earth, History, Mars, Missions, NASA, Solar System, Space Exploration, Space Flight

Yuri Gagarin From the Earth to Mars Tribute

19 Apr , 2011 by Ken Kremer

[/caption] 50 Years ago, the dream of human spaceflight opened with the courageous blastoff of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin inside the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth. Less than a month later on May 5. 1961, Astronaut Alan Shepard bravely set forth on America’s first human […]

50th anniversary of Human Spaceflight, Alan Shepard, Apollo, NASA, Roscosmos, Russian Space program, vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin

History, Solar System, Space Exploration, Space Flight

Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1 Photo Album – 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight

11 Apr , 2011 by Ken Kremer

[/caption] 50 Years ago on April 12,1961 the era of Human spaceflight opened with a roar to the heavens above with the thunderous blastoff of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Site No.1 at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time. Gagarin, at the age of 27, dared to brave the perils […]

50th anniversary of Human Spaceflight, Baikonur, Baikonur Cosmodome, cosmonauts, NASA, Roscosmos, Sergei Korolev, soviet space program, Space Shuttle, STS-1, vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri's Night

History, NASA, Solar System, Space Exploration, Space Flight, Space Shuttle, Space Station

Countdown to Yuri’s Night and the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight !

9 Apr , 2011 by Ken Kremer

Mark your calendars. April 12, 2011 marks the 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight and Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s astonishing First Orbit of our precious planet Earth on April 12, 1961. Gagarin was the first human to enter outer space and see what no one else had ever witnessed – our commonly shared Earth as a planet […]

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