Deke Slayton was an amazing astronaut as well as a former pilot in the American Air Force, an aeronautical engineer and the first Chief of the Astronaut Office for NASA. His most famous mission was when he was chosen to join the Mercury Seven astronaut crew. One of his other acheivements included being the oldest person to travel in space at the time at the age of 51. Despite all his successes, there were a few setbacks in his life that almost prevented him from accomplishing his goals. In his childhood, his left ring finger got cut off because of an farm equipment accident.
Before becoming an astronaut on the Apollo 13 launch, Fred Haise served roughly 2 years in the Marine Corps training to fly different military airplanes. In 1966, Haise was selected for the Lunar Module pilot position for Apollo 13 and served as a backup pilot for Apollo 8 and 11 missions.
So at the age of 52 he is the oldest person to ever go through Naval Flight
I need to do that,' " clarified Anderson when inquired as to whether there was something specifically that started an enthusiasm for turning into a space traveler, enough to enable him to endure during that time of innumerable rejections. In spite of the fact that he graduated in physics at Hastings college and got his masters in aerospace engineering at the Iowa State University, Anderson was just a cadet at NASA when he initially applied to end up as an
Following his graduation in 1936, he went on to commission as an officer in the Army Air Corps, but when he applied for flight school he was rejected due to the color of his skin. At that time, the Army Air Corps believed that blacks lacked the intelligence and mental courage to succeed as fighter pilots. Many would’ve
Overall, James Lovell was a very accomplished astronaut from his many different achievements. James Lovell has gone on four spaceflights in his lifetime. According to CNN, he was the first astronaut that went on four spaceflights. To be the first one in the whole world to go on 4 potentially dangerous spaceflights is really amazing to me. These spaceflights include: Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13.
Eugene Cernan was an astroaut from Illinois. He flew on three NASA missions, Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, and Apollo 13, he was officially the last man to go to the moon. He salvaged his mission on Gemini, and on Apollo 10 set the world record for fastest manned vehicle at 24,791 mph. He logged in 5000 hours of flying and more that 4800 in a jet aircraft and 200 aircraft carrier landings which are really hard. I can connect to Eugene Cernan because to be an astronaut and a jet for over 4800 hours.
He returned to the United States a war hero, and became the President of Columbia University. In 1952, he was elected as the 34th President of the United States, and served until 1961. As president, he led the country through
Making him the first human to average super sonic speed during a transcontinental flight. After his time in the army, Glenn was selected to participate in NASA’s Project Mercury. He was set to be the backup pilot for Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom. After 3 years , it was finally Glenn’s turn to venture into the “deep dark space”. On February 1962 , the Friendship 7 space shuttle launched with John Glenn in the pilot cabin.
During a mission in 1943, his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, leaving him and two other crew members stranded on a life raft for 47 days. They faced hunger, thirst, and attacks from sharks, but their will to survive kept them going. Eventually, they were rescued by a Japanese patrol boat and taken to a POW
He was also in the U.S. army and was working as an army air service reserve pilot.("Charles Lindbergh Biography.") Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindberg’s had a very particular expeditions,
He signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1948 at age 42. He finally finished playing in 1953 but he did pitch 3 innings for Kansas City in 1965 at age 59. He is also known as black baseball’s notable
John Young was a successful man who walked on the moon and completed the first Shuttle mission. The connection that I have with him is that he was very dedicated and determined to become as astronaut. I believe that in order to accomplish your dreams you need to work hard and never give up; John Young is a good example of this. His dream started when he was young, and he pursued it all the way to today. His favorite thing to do when he was little was make model airplanes.
While at the NASA center that now bears his name, Armstrong was actively engaged in both piloting and engineering aspects of the X-15 hypersonic rocket plane program from its inception. He completed the first flight in an X-15 aircraft after it was equipped with a new airflow-direction sensor in its nose, as well as the initial flight in another X-15 equipped with a self-adaptive flight control system. Armstrong amassed a total of eight days and 14 hours in space during two space flights, including two hours and 48 minutes walking on the moon.
As said in the article Neil Armstrong by A+E Networks, it states, “...he joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati as a professor of aerospace engineering.” Which shows how he helped space exploration to help us to learn
