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Ten Years In Space and a Look Ahead
A retrospective by Aerospace Writer Howard Benedict marks ten years since Alan B. Shepard's first American spaceflight. The piece surveys Mercury Gemini Apollo progress, Soviet efforts, and the looming Skylab era, noting funding shifts, manpower declines, and the push for space stations and Mars missions amid political pressure and budget cuts.
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Alan B. Shepard
America
Aerospace
Howard Bedict
Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
Tape Kennedy
Fla
Mars
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Shepard
Moon
United States
Mariner
U.S
Congress
Russia
Navy
Yuri A. Gagarin
Earth
Globe
John F. Kennedy
Mercury
Cape Kennedy
Vladimir Komarov
Gagarin
Komarov
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin
Lunar Sea of Tranquility