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Today marks 52 years since Little Joe 1A, a rocket launched from NASA’s Wallops Island launch facility to test an escape system for Project Mercury. Here’s a film from James Duffy’s Rocket.aero on the Little Joe project.
A little-known chapter in the early history of manned space exploration, Little Joe paved the way for Project Mercury and the first manned US space flights....
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theatlanticvideo:
This Is Probably as Close as You’ll Get to Being an Astronaut
Our highlight reel of NASA’s spectacular time-lapse videos of Earth, as seen by astronauts on board the International Space Station
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