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Ten Year Space Era Review and Mars Hopes
The piece chronicles ten years since Alan Shepard’s 1961 suborbital flight, noting progress to Apollo lunar landings and Soyuz tests. It highlights planned unmanned Mariner missions to Mars, potential long-term Soviet space stations, and the prospect that NASA’s Skylab and a shuttle-era space station face funding and political hurdles before 1973.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan B. Shepard Jr
America
AP Aerospace
Howard Benedict
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Mars
Shepard
Atlantic Missile Range
Moon
Space Stations
United States
Mariner
U.S
John F. Kennedy
Vladimir Komarov
Gagarin
Komarov
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Earth
Congress