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 .p017 1958 end, project Mercury begun
 .p021 1959 April 9 Mercury astronaut first press conference
 .p016 1960 October 24 R-16 rocket explosion killed 74 including strategic missile chief Mitrofan Nedelin
 .p009 1960 December 24 . . . recovery of 2m diameter 2500 kg capsule with two dogs, 5th flight, barely survived
  . most dog fights failed, 1960 August third flight Belka and Strelka survived
 .p016 two further dog tests
 .p021 1961 Mercury astronauts in Langley building 60, Glenn and Shepard front runners
 .p024 Glenn(1929) 57 WW2 missions, 59 Korea missions, 3 kills, 5 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguished_Flying_Cross_(United_States) | DFCs ]] 1957 fastest cross country, ''Name That Tune''
 .p024 Shepard(1923) Navy test pilot, no combat, looped Chesapeake Bay bridge ~1952
 .p026 Carpenter(1925) hobby playing guitar
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  . 3x more powerful than 118 tonne Atlas (Mk 4 RV with 3.75MT W-38 warhead massed 1840 kg   . 3x more powerful than 118 tonne Atlas . . . US Mk 4 RV with 3.75MT W-38 warhead massed 1840 kg
 .p029 Tsentr Podgotovki Kosmonavtov Military Unit 26266, Shchyolkovsky district 41 km NE of Moscow
  .p030 later Zvyozdny Godorok, Star City, near [[ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Voyennyy+Aerodrom+Chkalovsk/@54.7623275,20.3988322,6195m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x46e33f95d0d2662d:0x91eab0e40cc917c7!8m2!3d54.7711105!4d20.4080161 | Chkalovsky Air Base ]]
  . named after [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Chkalov | Valery Chkalov ]], who flew nonstop from Moscow to Vancouver WA in 1936
 .p030 6 cosmonauts shorter and in 20s, not 30s like Mercury
 .p030 Vostok simulator in LII Gromov Flight Research Institute in [[ https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Nauchno-Issledovatel'skiy+Ispytatel'nyy+Tsentr+Podgotovki+Kosmonavtov+Imeni+Yu.a.+Gagarina,+Zvyozdny+gorodok,+Moscow+Oblast,+Russia,+141160/The+Gromov+Flight+Research+Institute,+Moscow+oblast,+Zhukovskiy,+%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9,+Russia,+140180/@55.7511243,37.8353269,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x414b2ac6182b23bb:0x97cdc32d0054bfbc!2m2!1d38.1126455!2d55.8735303!1m5!1m1!1s0x414abf524c000001:0x1ca0ccaa5f4d4367!2m2!1d38.1179548!2d55.6026183!3e0 | Zhukovsky ]], 45 km SE of Moscow

 
 

Beyond

2021 Stephen Walker BvLib 629.45 WAL

I was a small child when this history occured:

1957 October 4

Sputnik

and later on

1958 January 31

Explorer 1

1965 March 23

Gemini 3, Grissom & Young

this history

1965 December 15

Gemini 6 & 7 Rendezvous

1961 January 20

Kennedy inauguration

1966 November 11

Gemini 12, Lovell & Aldrin

1961 April 12

Yuri Gagarin - Vostok 1

1967 November 9

Apollo 4 first "all up" unmanned

1961 April 17

Bay of Pigs invasion

1968 October 11

Apollo 7 first crew

1961 May 5

Mercury Alan Shepard

1968 December 21

Apollo 8 to lunar orbit

1961 May 25

Kennedy moon speech

1969 July 16

Apollo 11 to lunar landing

1961 October 27

Saturn Apollo 1 rocket test

1971 April 19

Salyut 1 space station

1962 Feb 20

John Glenn - Mercury

1973 May 14

Skylab space station

1964 April 8

Gemini 1, no crew

1964 October 12

Voskhod 1, 3 cosmonauts     no room for space suits

  • p003 1955, railway from Moscow to Tashkent, small stop at Tyuratam
  • p017 1958 end, project Mercury begun
  • p021 1959 April 9 Mercury astronaut first press conference
  • p016 1960 October 24 R-16 rocket explosion killed 74 including strategic missile chief Mitrofan Nedelin
  • p009 1960 December 24 . . . recovery of 2m diameter 2500 kg capsule with two dogs, 5th flight, barely survived
    • most dog fights failed, 1960 August third flight Belka and Strelka survived
  • p016 two further dog tests
  • p021 1961 Mercury astronauts in Langley building 60, Glenn and Shepard front runners
  • p024 Glenn(1929) 57 WW2 missions, 59 Korea missions, 3 kills, 5 DFCs 1957 fastest cross country, Name That Tune

  • p024 Shepard(1923) Navy test pilot, no combat, looped Chesapeake Bay bridge ~1952
  • p026 Carpenter(1925) hobby playing guitar
  • p004 1961 6000 km2 ellipse Baikonur Cosmodrome ready for Vostok 1
  • p004 R-7 rocket type 8K27K 28.4 meters tall 280 tonnes, 3 (RDS-37) to 5 MT (RDS-46) warhead (5300 kg?)
    • 3x more powerful than 118 tonne Atlas . . . US Mk 4 RV with 3.75MT W-38 warhead massed 1840 kg
  • p029 Tsentr Podgotovki Kosmonavtov Military Unit 26266, Shchyolkovsky district 41 km NE of Moscow
  • p030 6 cosmonauts shorter and in 20s, not 30s like Mercury
  • p030 Vostok simulator in LII Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, 45 km SE of Moscow

Beyond (last edited 2021-06-25 03:38:08 by KeithLofstrom)