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First radio contact between an Australian and a spacecraft? First voice communications?
Launched east from Cape Canaveral at about 30 degrees north latitude, the first few orbits have an opportunity to pass over Australia because it's big and roughly antipodal, especially as the Earth ...
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Why did Mercury use multiple CAPCOMs while Apollo did not?
A spacecraft needs multiple receiving stations to prevent its radio signals from being blocked by Earth. Wikipedia has a map of the ground stations used for the Mercury missions.
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Looking for veterans of the Space Race [closed]
Hi everyone. I am writing an oral history of the men and women who worked at Cape Canaveral and KSC during Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. If you know someone that fits the bill, or know how to find them, ...
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How was time kept on board early manned spaceflights?
I have not been able to find a definitive answer to this.
From Mercury to Gemini to Apollo, what was the mechanism for keeping time onboard the spacecraft? Did the Engineers spend energy (and maybe ...
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Size of Apollo era astronauts
I had read that the early astronauts were all 'short guys'. This made a lot of sense. A short man can have as much stamina and endurance as a large man, yet eat less, consume less oxygen & (...
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Are Mercury/Apollo/Gemini capsules visible in any museum?
Is it possible to visit some of the famous American capsules in any museum?
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