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... Then in 1959 the National Aeronautics and Space Administration asked the United States military services to list their members who met specific qualifications. The search was underway for pilots for the exciting new manned space flight program. In seeking its first space pilots, NASA emphasized jet aircraft flight experience and engineering training, and it tailored physical stature requirements to the small cabin space available in the Mercury capsule then being designed. ...

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... 2006 December 10 . Apollo 17 Panorama: Astronaut Running . Credit: Apollo 17 Crew, NASA ; Mosaic Assembled Copyright: M. Constantine (moonpans.com) . ... In 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission, astronaut Harrison Schmitt found out first hand. In this case, the world was Earth 's own Moon . In this recently compiled panorama of lunar photographs originally taken by astronaut Eugene Cernan , the magnificent desolation of the barren Moon is apparent. ... About APOD | ...

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... SSAU History . ... On Wednesday, March 18, marks the 50th anniversary of the first human spacewalk. The first astronaut in the world, who walked out into space, Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov was born on May 30, 1934 in the village Listvyanka of Tisulskiy District in Kemerovo Region, RSFSR. In 1957 he graduated from Chuguev Military Aviation School for Pilots (MASP) and three years later he was enrolled in the first team of Soviet astronauts. ... Aleksey Leonov and Pavel Belyaev decided to fly. ...

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EIGHTH CREW REQUIRED RESOURCES FIFTH RUSSIAN VISITING CREW SERVANTES SSM PROJECT IMAGE VIDEO . ... From May to October 1994 he trained for a 30-day flight to Mir under EC-17 program and Euromir 94 mission within a backup crew together with Russian cosmonauts Yu.P. Gidzenko and S.V. Avdeev. ... From October 2002 to February 2003 he was in training at Yu.A. Gagarin CTC as a flight engineer-1 of the Soyuz TMA TSC of expedition crew-5, visiting crew (VC-5) of the International Space Station. ...

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