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| .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 ]] |
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2021 Stephen Walker BvLib 629.45 WAL
I was a small child when this history occured:
1957 October 4 |
Sputnik |
and later on |
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1958 January 31 |
Explorer 1 |
1965 March 23 |
Gemini 3, Grissom & Young |
this history |
1965 December 15 |
Gemini 6 & 7 Rendezvous |
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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 |
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1964 October 12 |
Voskhod 1, 3 cosmonauts no room for space suits |
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- 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 later Zvyozdny Godorok, Star City, near Chkalovsky Air Base
- 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