STEPS INTO SPACE A LOOK AT KEY MISSIONS OF THE U.S. SPACE PROGRAM AND THE ASTRONAUTS WHO WILL BE COMING TO SEATTLE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO COLLEAGUE PETE CONRAD.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | Date: July 21, 2000 | Copyright information

A look at key missions of the U.S. space program and the astronauts who will be coming to Seattle to pay tribute to colleague Pete Conrad.

MERCURY

NASA wasn't even a week old when it launched Project Mercury on October 7, 1958. The three goals of the project were simple: put a person into a spacecraft that would orbit the Earth, see how that person functioned in the weightlessness of space, and return spacecraft and passenger safely to Earth.

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