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1960:
The first Mercury rocket was shot in the December of 1960. It was a Redstone rocket and made a unmanned ballistic flight.
1961:
January
Shimpanse Ham in the same rocket as Mercury 1 on a ballistic flight on board of Mercury2.
April
Mercury3 with an Atlas rocket had an unmanned false start.
May
Alan Shepard was the first American in space; he made a 15-minute ballistic flight with the cap Freedom 7 on Mercury 3 but not with an Atlas rocket but with an Redstone rocket. In this mission Sheppard tried to steer the space ship manually with the board instruments.
July
Virgil Grissom flew on Mercury 4 (Redstone) 16minutes long, 190km high and 500km far. His cap Liberty Bell 7 sunk and Grissom was rescued dramatically.
September
Mercury4(Atlas) rocket had a splash down after 1 earth orbiting, it was unmanned.
November
The Test schimpanse Enos was born alive on board alive of Mercury 5
1962:
February
On the 20. February John Glenn had gone around the world for 3 times with "Friendship 7 and Mercury 6. He was the first American in earth orbit. His flight lasted 4 hours and 55 minutes.
May
Scott Carpenter landed 400 km far from his calculated landing point with Mercury 7.
October
Wally Schirra landed his 1374kg rocket Sigma7 only 8 km from the salvage vessel. On the first day after the landing he had problems to adept on earth conditions.
1963
May:
Gordon cooper made a record flight on Faith7. He solved many board problems.
1965:
Virgil Grisshom and John Young were the first American team of astronauts. Their rocket was "Gemini 3" they orbited the earth for 5 hours on the 23. March.
Edward White, on board of "Gemini 4" with James McDivitt made the first American space walk. He was in space for 21 minutes and broke the record of the Soviets over 3 minutes.
James Lovell and Frank Borman spent 13 days on board of "Gemini 7" in the earth orbit and they came very near to "Gemini 6"
1966:
Neil Armstrong and David Scott made a dock on with "Gemini 8" on an Agena target body. It was the first dock on manoeuvre in space.
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