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Project Gemini
- Project GeminiIn 1961, NASA officials faced a stark reality. The Soviet Union had already sent humans into orbit. Project Mercury had achieved the first American…
- Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control CenterIn 1960, the first Mercury Control Center opened at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex in Florida. This facility sat inside the Engineering Support…
- Thomas P. StaffordThomas Patten Stafford was born on the 17th of September 1930, in Weatherford, Oklahoma. His father worked as a dentist and his mother had been a teacher…
- Boilerplate (spaceflight)A boilerplate spacecraft is a nonfunctional craft or payload that serves as a mass simulator for testing launch vehicle configurations.