Joe Walker in pressure suit with X-1E (by NASA on The Commons)
February 20, 1962, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
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A NASA photo dated 20 July 1969 showing Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin standing by the US flag planted on the surface of the moon. Photo by BGNES
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At about 100 meters from the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger, Bruce McCandless II was farther out than anyone had ever been before. Guided by a Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), astronaut McCandless, pictured above, was floating free in space. McCandless and fellow NASA astronaut Robert Stewart were the first to experience such an “untethered space walk” during Space Shuttle mission 41-B in 1984.