Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
In June of 1963, the Soviet Union performed an encore of the Vostok 3 and 4 missions with two manned spaceships orbiting the Earth simultaneously. However, Vostok 5 and 6 was more than a simple repetition. Vostok 5’s objective was to beat the flight-duration record. But Vostok-6 would carrying the first woman into space. The 26 year old Valentina Tereshkova….
Mission Patch
Valery Bykovsky
Valentina Tereshkova
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
Geosynchronous satellites have the advantage of remaining permanently in the same area of the sky, as viewed from a particular location on Earth. Geostationary satellites have the special property of remaining permanently fixed in the exact same position in the sky at all times, meaning that ground-based antennas do not need to track them but can remain fixed in one direction…
Syncom 2
Delta D
TIROS
Thor Delta B
By Dave.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the fourth and final manned orbital flight of the Mercury program. The flight objectives were to:
(1) evaluate the effects on the astronaut of approximately one day in orbital flight;
(2) verify that man can function for an extended period in space as a primary operating system of the spacecraft; and,
(3) evaluate in a manned one-day mission the combined performance of the astronaut and a Mercury spacecraft specifically modified for the mission…
L. Gordon Cooper Jr.
Mercury-Atlas 9
Shephard’s Joke
Tibet From Orbit
TV Broadcast
USS Kearsarge
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
During the summer of 1962 final preparations were underway for the first U.S. attempt to reach another planet. The planet was Venus, Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. This first flight would be accomplished by the JPL built Mariner 2 spacecraft…
Diagram of Mariner
Mainer 2 Launch
Mariner 2
Rose Parade Float
By Dave
Relay 1
