Photo for the Day - May 24, 2012 - Carpenter's Flight

-- Carpenter's Flight --

50 years ago today, Scott Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962. He piloted his Aurora 7 Spacecraft through three revolutions of the earth. 

In this photo, taken on May 24, 1962, Astronaut Scott Carpenter looks into his Mercury-Atlas 7 Spacecraft, the Aurora 7, before being inserted to begin the launch.
(Translation… “I gotta do WHAT?”)

Image Credit: NASA

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Lockheed Martin: Possible Manned Mission to the Dark Side of the Moon by 2016?

Image Credit: Lockheed Martin

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* POPSCI.com The Obama administration may have axed NASA’s ambitious manned moon exploration plans for even an even more ambitious deep space exploration agenda, but for those developing the technologies that will one day take us to deep space the moon is just too ripe a testing ground to ignore. Lockheed Martin is pitching NASA what’s being called an L2-Farside Mission that would launch a manned Orion spacecraft into a stationary halo orbit on the other side of the moon... brings us the following report that starts off like this...
Read the full report at link below...
Lockheed Martin Proposes Manned Mission to the Dark Side of the Moon
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* Read LockheedMartin.com PDF file HERE

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COOL Stuff -- Now will it fly!!!?

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