On July 29th
, 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill creating the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration. And thus, America joined the great space
race.
Today on Far Future Horizons we are celebrating the fifty-forth anniversary of John Glenn's orbital flight on February
20th, 1962 by presenting the first and second episodes
of the Discovery Channel's acclaimed TV series “When We Left Earth – Ordinary
Supermen & Friends and Rivals” which chronicles the start of the Space Race and the flights of the
Mercury Program.
Beginning with Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as the American’s first astronaut aboard Freedom 7, and John Glenn's historic flight aboard Friendship 7 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
Beginning with Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as the American’s first astronaut aboard Freedom 7, and John Glenn's historic flight aboard Friendship 7 when he became the first American to orbit the Earth.
