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OTD In Space - May 15: Last Flight Of NASA's Mercury Program

3rd - Higher Ed
On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was also the last time a NASA astronaut launched on a solo mission to space. Cooper lifted off from Cape Canaveral...
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Gravity Assist: Mars and InSight with Bruce Banerdt

Pre-K - Higher Ed
With its seismometer and heat probe instruments, InSight will investigate the deep dynamics of Mars, helping scientists discover what lies within its core and learn more about how rocky bodies form throughout the solar system.
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Mercury 7 astronauts in Mercury capsules

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Mercury Program astronauts, wearing civilian clothes, sit in Mercury capsules / Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Jr., John Glenn, Jr, L Gordon Cooper, Jr, Donald 'Deke' Slayton, and Alan Shepard on January 01, 1961...
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Mercury Program astronauts training

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Mercury Program astronauts training in classroom and conducting survival training in the desert at Stead Air Force Base on July 01, 1960 in Reno, Nevada (Footage by Getty Images)
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Mercury Program astronauts posing for photographs

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Mercury Program astronauts deplaning from American Airlines airplane, wearing suits and posing for photographs on January 01, 1961 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Mercury Program astronauts in training in zero gravity

Pre-K - Higher Ed
US Air Force airplane on tarmac / Mercury Program astronauts in zero gravity / Gus Grissom at flight controls on January 01, 1961 (Footage by Getty Images)