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Beyond
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
named after Valery Chkalov, who flew nonstop from Moscow to Vancouver WA in 1937
p030 6 cosmonauts, shorter ( < 170cm ) and in 20s, not 30s like Mercury, Vanguard 6
p030 Vostok simulator in LII Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, 45 km SE of Moscow
- p031 14 more in training, top secret, relatives unaware, wives knew a little