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Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper. Credit: NASA TV

Faith 7: Gordon Cooper

On May 15, 1963, "Gordo" Cooper made the final flight of NASA's Mercury program, logging more time in space than all the previous Mercury astronauts ...

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Commercializing Space: Expanding access to space while enabling the future of human space exploration.

Commercializing Space

Learn how NASA is changing the way it does business: investing in commercial space transportation and making the space station available for research.

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NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft

Dare Mighty Things

Explore this interactive timeline to learn about 50 years of planetary exploration.

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The NASA Spacesuit Interactive Feature

The NASA Spacesuit

Explore the "personal spacecraft" of astronauts, from the silver suit of the Mercury 7 to the "pumpkin suit" of shuttle astronauts.

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NASA Earth Month 2013 graphic.

Earth Month 2013

Explore NASA Earth Science highlights from the previous year.

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More Interactive Features

  • John Glenn enters his Friendship 7 capsule with assistance from technicians to begin his historic flight on Feb. 20, 1962.

    John Glenn's Flight

    Interactive feature from 2012 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first American in orbit.

  • Day of Remembrance 2013

    Day of Remembrance

    Each year, we honor the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crews and other members of the NASA family who lost their lives supporting NASA's mission.

  • NASA 2012 Year in Review.

    Year in Review: 2012

    In 2012, NASA continued to implement America's ambitious space exploration program, landing the most sophisticated rover on the surface of Mars, carrying out the first-ever commercial mission to the International Space Station and advancing the systems needed to send humans deeper into space.

  • Postcards

    Send Holiday Greetings to the Space Station

    You are invited to send holiday greetings to the crew up on the International Space Station during this holiday season.

  • Apollo 17 interactive feature. Credit: NASA

    Apollo 17

    Commander Gene Cernan and scientist-astronaut Jack Schmitt explored the moon's Taurus-Littrow region with Ron Evans orbiting overhead, during the final mission of the Apollo program in 1972.

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