Man In Space Soonest (MISS) was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to put a man into outer space before the Soviet Union. The program was cancelled...
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Neil Armstrong (redirect from First man on the moon)
the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which...
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Human spaceflight programs (redirect from Manned Space Programs)
started. Man In Space Soonest was a United States Air Force program to put an American astronaut in orbit. It was canceled when NASA was formed in August...
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Joseph A. Walker (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
Stratojet.[citation needed] In 1958, Walker was one of the pilots selected for the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest (MISS) project, but that project...
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NASA (redirect from Space In Stereo)
Armed Forces prior to NASA's creation. The Air Force's Man in Space Soonest project formed in 1956, coupled with the Army's Project Adam, served as the...
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program to launch the first man in space, named Man in Space Soonest. This program studied several different types of one-man space vehicles, settling on a...
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Project Mercury (redirect from Mercury space program)
absorbed military projects with the same aim, such as the Air Force Man in Space Soonest. Following the end of World War II, a nuclear arms race evolved between...
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unmarried woman. Miss or MISS may also refer to: MISS or Man in Space Soonest, a U.S. Airforce space program that eventually became Project Mercury Miss....
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Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
first three pilots in the next rocket-powered aircraft program, the X-15, and would have been part of the Man in Space Soonest project. In July 1958, Kincheloe...
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S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest manned spaceflight program. The program ended early due to financial and technical difficulties. In 1961, he was selected...
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Mercury Seven (category 1959 in spaceflight)
project called Man in Space Soonest (MISS), for which it obtained approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and requested $133Â million in funding. MISS...
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List of astronauts by year of selection (redirect from List of space travel trainee selections by year)
Aircraft Corporation were selected for the Man in Space Soonest project, a USAF initiative to put a man in space before the Soviet Union did. The project...
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The German space programme is the set of projects funded by the government of Germany for the exploration and use of outer space. The space programme is...
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Bill Bridgeman (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
published. He was an astronaut candidate for the United States Air Force Man In Space Soonest program, but the program was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and replaced...
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John B. McKay (category People who have flown in suborbital spaceflight)
F-104 and the F-107. In 1958, McKay was selected for and would have participated in the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program, had it come to...
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NASA also took over the US crewed space program, Man In Space Soonest, from the Air Force, as Project Mercury. Early in John F. Kennedy's presidency, he...
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Albert Scott Crossfield (category Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in the United States)
during this time that Crossfield was part of the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest project. On June 8, 1959, he completed the airplane's first flight...
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National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy....
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Wolf Amendment (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
Congress in 2011, named after then–United States Representative Frank Wolf, that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
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into outer space, operations in outer space and return from outer space to Earth free from physical or radio-frequency interference." Space traffic includes...
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Education (in German). Archived from the original on 27 May 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022. Norman, Linda. "Denton: Town loses another prominent man". Lexington...
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Mission Shakti (category Space programme of India)
tested an ASAT weapon. The test sparked concerns regarding the creation of space debris. The Indian government tried to address these concerns by saying...
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Government of its commercial space use, legislated in 2015. The update to US law explicitly allows US citizens and industries to "engage in the commercial exploration...
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HGM-25A Titan I (category Military equipment introduced in the 1950s)
Proposal" for "Project 7969," an early USAF project to "Put a Man in Space Soonest (MISS)". Two of the four firms which responded, Martin and Avco, proposed...
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Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
program, Man In Space Soonest, which was renamed as Project Mercury. The project's first seven astronauts were announced on April 9, 1959. In September...
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would be transferred to NASA, as was the Man in Space Soonest program. Interservice rivalries over space persisted in 1959, with Army Major General Medaris...
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Robert Michael White (category American prisoners of war in World War II)
Lake. White would have participated in the Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program, had it come to fruition. In February 1961, White unofficially set...
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Space propaganda is a form of propaganda relating to achievements in space exploration and space science. It is used primarily to further a nation's perceived...
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The Space Industry Act 2018 (c. 5) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom introduced by Chris Grayling as Secretary of State for Transport to extend...
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Astronautics (IAA), with the support of the International Institute of Space Law. The theories of PDPs constitute a distinct area of research but draw...
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