“NASA History Fact Sheet”. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): NASA History Division: NASA History in Brief.
17 December 1958: The United States announced that its piloted...
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17 December 1958
The United States announced that its piloted satellite program run by NASA
would be known as Project Mercury.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
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Mid-August 1960: The US space programme NASA launched the...
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Mid-August 1960
The US space programme NASA
launched the pioneering communications satellite known as Echo 1. Working on the principle of a mirror, it reflected radio signals between two points on earth.
“Dispatches”. Guardian Weekly, 13 Aug. 2010, p. 33.
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December 1968-December 1972: During these years of NASA's Apollo space...
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December 1968-December 1972
During these years of NASA
's Apollo space program twenty-seven people, all male Americans, visited what is called Deep Space, beyond the earth's orbit.
McKie, Robin. “Dark side of the Moon”. Guardian Weekly, 10–16 June 2005, p. 26.
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25 August 2012: According to an announcement by scientists...
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25 August 2012
According to an announcement by scientists at NASA
after more than a year of examining the data (though even then a few other space scientists remain sceptical) the spacecraft Voyager 1 (launched from the Earth...