8 hours agoThe First American to Travel in Space
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The United States of America on May 5, 1961, developed a program called Mercuri, where Alan Shepard becomes the first space - travel American after just two years of becoming an astronaut. He performed a 15 - minute flight, passing an incomplete spin around the Earth with the capsule, which he baptized [...]
He performed a 15 - minute flight, passing an incomplete spin around the Earth with the capsule, which Freedom 7.
The first transfer of a US astronaut into space took place less than four years after the Soviet Union started racing in space launching mankind's first artificial satellite.
Sputnik's launch shocked the United States, which feared a technological gap with its rival Soviet Union and began to rebuild the country's science and engineering education, where a year later they even established the American space agency NASA.
