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Hardware evolving toward moon missions outlined
The article traces Mercury capsules with six astronauts including Alan Shepard first in space May 1961, Grissom and John Glenn orbiting, then Gemini with ten two-man flights and milestones like White’s space walk, docking on Gemini 8, and the two-week Gemini 7. Apollo missions will follow using Saturn 1B then the Saturn V rocket for lunar flight.
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America
Moon
Alan Shepard
Virgil Grissom
John Glenn
Earth
Scott Carpenter
Walter Schirra
Gordon Cooper
Grissom
John Young
Edward White
Neil Armstrong
David Scott
Gus Grissom
U. S
Betty Grissom
The
Macmillan Co
Virgil J. Grissom
World Book Science Service
John F. Kennedy
Congress
Yuri Gagarin
al Shepard
Gagarin
NASA
Mercury
Gemini