MISS Flight 1
Mission · USA
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Credit: © Mark Wade
In the USAF Man-In-Space Soonest program plan issued on 15 June 1958 targeted the first manned flight for April 1960. Ten days later the first astronaut group was identified - consisting of Robert Walker, Scott Crossfield, Neil Armstrong, and Robert Rushworth. But a month later the project was stopped, and NASA was handed the program in September 1959. NASA's project Mercury wouldn't orbit an American until 1962.
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- Family
- Manned spaceflight
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- Bridgeman, White, Alvin, Walker, Joseph, Crossfield, McKay, White, Robert, Rushworth, Kincheloe, Armstrong
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- USA
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- Man-In-Space-Soonest