CDR SHIRRA ON USS KEARSARGE ARRIVES AT PEARL HARBOR
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Project Mercury (U.S.)
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...
Sides, John H. (John Harold), 1904-1978
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John Harold Sides was born April 22, 1904, in Roslyn, Washington. He received his commission as Ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1925, and advanced to the rank of admiral in 1960. He is known for planning and developing the Regulus, the first cruise missile. Sides died on April 3, 1978. From the description of Sides, John H. (John Harold), 1904-1978 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10616064 ...
