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was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral on July 24 1950. (NASA) The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is the East Coast space launch facility of the United States Department of Defense. Located on Cape Canaveral in the State of Florida, it depends on Patrick Air Force Base, home of the 45th Space Wing. CCAFS is adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Space Center. (...) Feature: landmark, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.4667, Lng.: -80.5333 read more | locate on map
Gemini 2 was the second spaceflight of the American human spaceflight program Project Gemini. Gemini 2, like Gemini 1, was an unmanned mission intended as a test flight of the Gemini spacecraft's heat shield. The flight was suborbital and was launched on a Titan II rocket. The mission's spacecraft later became the first to be flown into space twice when it was sent on an unmanned (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 16.6, Lng.: -49.7667 read more | locate on map
space vehicle launch facility (spaceport) on Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida, United States. The site is near Cape Canaveral, midway between Miami and Jacksonville, Florida. It is long and around wide, covering . Around 17,000 people work at the site. There is a visitor center and public tours and KSC is a major tourist destination for visitors to Florida (...) Feature: landmark, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.5853, Lng.: -80.6508 read more | locate on map
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip is a military airport located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, seven miles (11 km) northeast of the central business district of Cocoa Beach, in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It has an asphalt paved runway designated 13/31 and measuring 10,000 x 200 ft. (3,048 x 61 m). This military airport is owned by the United States Air Force (...) Feature: airport, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.4678, Lng.: -80.5669 read more | locate on map
Cape Canaveral AFS Skid Strip is a military airport near Cocoa Beach, Florida, United States. Part of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the CCAFS Skid Strip was mostly remembered as the runway used by NASA's Pregnant Guppy and Super Guppy transport aircraft used to carry the S-IVB upper stage for the Saturn IB and Saturn V rockets used in Project Apollo (...) Feature: airport, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.4675, Lng.: -80.5667 read more | locate on map
Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day Earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission. (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 27.5333, Lng.: -64.0667 read more | locate on map
Holloman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in Otero County, about 6 miles southwest of Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States. It is the home of the 49th Fighter Wing. The base is also a census-designated place. (...) Feature: airport, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 32.8833, Lng.: -106.0667 read more | locate on map
Mercury-Redstone 3 was a U.S. Mercury program manned space mission launched on May 5, 1961 using a Redstone rocket, from Launch Complex 5 (LC-5) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Mercury capsule was named ''Freedom 7'' and it performed a suborbital flight, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard—the first American in space (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 27.2283, Lng.: -75.8833 read more | locate on map
Gemini 11 (officially Gemini XI) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 9th manned Gemini flight, the 17th manned American flight and the 25th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 24.2567, Lng.: -70 read more | locate on map
Gemini 3 was a 1965 manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the first manned Gemini flight, the ninth manned American flight and the 17th manned spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 22.4333, Lng.: -70.85 read more | locate on map
Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was a June 1965 manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 2nd manned Gemini flight, the 10th manned American flight and the 18th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). It was crewed by James McDivitt and Edward White. (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 27.7333, Lng.: -74.1833 read more | locate on map
Mercury-Redstone 4 was a Mercury program manned space mission launched on July 21, 1961 using a Redstone rocket. Its capsule was named ''Liberty Bell 7'' and performed a suborbital flight piloted by astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. It reached an altitude of over 118.26 mi (190 km) and traveled about 300 mi (480 km) (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 27.5358, Lng.: -75.7658 read more | locate on map
Gemini 8 (officially Gemini VIII) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 6th manned Gemini flight, the 12th manned American flight and the 22nd spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 25.23, Lng.: 136 read more | locate on map
Gemini 10 (officially Gemini X) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 8th manned Gemini flight, the 16th manned American flight and the 24th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 26.745, Lng.: -71.95 read more | locate on map
Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 4th manned Gemini flight, the 12th manned American flight and the 20th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 km). (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 25.4183, Lng.: -70.1117 read more | locate on map
Sea Launch is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. As of January 2007 it had assembled and launched 24 rockets with two failures and one partial failure. The sea-based launch system means the rockets can be fired from the optimum position on Earth's surface, considerably increasing (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 0, Lng.: -154 read more | locate on map
Patrick Air Force Base is a United States Air Force Base located between Satellite Beach and Cocoa Beach, in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is home to the 45th Space Wing and the Air Force Technical Applications Center. (...) Feature: airport, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.235, Lng.: -80.61 read more | locate on map
The second USS ''Thresher'' (SSN-593) was the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. Her loss at sea during deep-diving tests in 1963 is often considered a watershed event in the implementation of the rigorous submarine safety program SUBSAFE (...) Feature: landmark, Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 41.7667, Lng.: -65.05 read more | locate on map
==Crew== Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission. *Wally Schirra (1) ===Backup Crew=== *Gordon Cooper ==Mission parameters== *Mass:1370 kg *Perigee: 153 km *Apogee: 285 km *Inclination: 32 (...) Feature: , Country Code: , Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 32.125, Lng.: -174.75 read more | locate on map
Apollo 1 is the official name given to the never-flown Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27 1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known as Cape Kennedy) atop a Saturn IB rocket (...) Feature: landmark, Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 28.5218, Lng.: -80.5613 read more | locate on map
Andover Earth Station is a satellite earth station located at . The location was selected by AT&T in December 1960. The main factors were the topography of the land and the radio interference signal level. Other factors included a location in the Northeastern United States to give a short great circle path to Western Europe, it was located close enough to existing transcontinental (...) Feature: , Country Code: US, Population: 0, Elevation: 0, Lat.: 44.6328, Lng.: -70.6992 read more | locate on map