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Há 5 dias · This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies.
Há 2 dias · This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name. More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
Há 5 horas · President Kennedy speaks at Rice University, September 12, 1962 (17 min, 47 s). In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:
14 de mai. de 2024 · In September 1962, John W. Young was selected as an astronaut in NASA’s second astronaut group. He is the first person to fly in space six times from Earth, and seven times counting his lunar liftoff.
General McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962. He was command pilot for Gemini 4 and commander of Apollo 9. This was the first flight of the complete set of Apollo hardware and was the first flight of the Lunar Module.
17 de mai. de 2024 · Captain James Lovell was selected as an Astronaut by NASA in September 1962. He flew on 4 missions over his NASA Career: Gemini VII and XII, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13. He held the record for time in space with a total of 715 hours and 5 minutes until surpassed by the Skylab flights.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Astronaut John Glenn entering Friendship 7 to begin the first American manned mission to orbit Earth, February 1962. (more) Of the “ Mercury Seven,” the U.S. military pilots selected in 1959 to be the first astronauts, Glenn was the oldest.
