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Operations => Aerospace Education => Topic started by: sardak on May 05, 2011, 09:47:12 PM

Title: 50th Anniversary of First Manned US Spaceflight
Post by: sardak on May 05, 2011, 09:47:12 PM
Today, May 5, 2011, marks the 50th anniversary of the first US manned spaceflight.  Alan Shepard was launched in the Mercury capsule "Freedom 7" atop a Redstone rocket. This was three weeks after the first manned spaceflight, that of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/50_freedom7.html

Now, we are just two launches away from the last US manned spaceflight until who knows when. Our Russian friends will continue to give us a lift to orbit, though.

Mike
Title: Re: 50th Anniversary of First Manned US Spaceflight
Post by: Abdomina on May 05, 2011, 10:14:50 PM
50 years ago we were competing with the russians, now we are working together (my 2 favorite countries) :D
Title: Re: 50th Anniversary of First Manned US Spaceflight
Post by: JC004 on May 06, 2011, 02:09:59 AM
Quote from: Abdomina on May 05, 2011, 10:14:50 PM
50 years ago we were competing with the russians, now we are working together (my 2 favorite countries) :D

Yes.  We are standing down our space vehicle while using theirs and while they jack up the prices.
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