John Glenn's landings:
from splashdown to touchdown
When John Glenn made his first space flight in 1962, he landed
by "splashdown" in the Atlantic Ocean, his tiny Friendship 7
capsule bobbing in the ocean until it was hoisted out of the water
by a Navy ship.
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From outer space to around the house
When astronauts in the Apollo program needed a lightweight
drill to collect samples from 10 feet below the moon's surface,
NASA turned to an American company to help it
develop a small, lightweight, battery-powered tool.
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First female astronaut still hoping to go up
The Mercury 13 were NASA's first female astronauts -- 13 women chosen to endure the same physical and psychological tests for space that their seven male counterparts endured.
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Where are they now?
The "Mercury seven" are now only four, but the
brotherhood lives on.
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Then and now
In 1962, "Lawrence of Arabia" won the Oscar and
the world population was just over 3 billion.
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