NASA’s 60th Anniversary: The evolution of human spaceflight

By Linda Hernandez

Published October 6, 2018 4:00pm ET

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NASA’s 60th Anniversary: The evolution of human spaceflight — How do you put people into space? That was the burning questioning that fueled the international Space Race of the 1960s. “The early approach was to treat human beings as if they were payloads that would sit on top of a rocket, much like a nuclear weapon would sit on top of a missile,” said […]

How do you put people into space?

That was the burning questioning that fueled the international Space Race of the 1960s.

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