Tag: Gus Grissom

  • Project Gemini

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 33, Number 9. The second phase of America’s road to the Moon began sixty years ago in 1965 with the two-man Gemini…

  • Project Mercury

    FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 30, Number 2. Sixty years ago this month (February 20, 1962), Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the…

  • First Humans in Space

    Young Astronomers Blog, Volume 29, Number 7. Sixty years ago, humans from the planet Earth left their world for the first time and journeyed above…