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Changed by leadership to single female flight in March 1963.

Two capsules would be launched a day apart each would remain aloft for three days. Originally Vostok 5/6 were to be dual female flights.

Vostok 6A Cancelled female cosmonaut flight. Canceled and NASA moved directly to an 18-orbit mission due to astronaut shortage and change in concept (flights no longer used just to train astronauts). Mercury MA-9A Planned Mercury six-orbit mission. Cancelled 18 March 1962 when astronaut's minor heart condition became public. Mercury MA-7 Delta 7 Planned second US manned orbital flight. These were considered as an intermediary step in the Mercury program before use of the Jupiter booster in the program was cancelled in July 1959 on cost grounds. Mercury-Jupiter 2 (MJ-2) Planned manned Mercury long-range suborbital flights using the Jupiter IRBM as a booster. Cancelled July 1961 delays in Redstone flights meant Atlas orbital flights were imminent. Mercury MR-6 Planned Mercury suborbital flight. Further suborbital Mercury flights were cancelled.

After Soviet full-day orbital flight in August 1961, NASA's suborbital hops looked pathetic. Mercury MR-5 Planned Mercury suborbital flight. If NASA had overruled Von Braun, Shepard would have been the first man in space, beating Gagarin's flight by three weeks. But after booster problems on Mercury MR-2, von Braun insisted on a further unmanned booster test. Mercury MR-3A Planned manned Mercury flight that would have put an American in space before the Russians. Final flights would be manned tests of up to 24 hours duration, with recovery of the capsule at sea. These would occur from July 1959 to January 1961. Mercury Balloon Flight Tests In January 1959, balloon flights were planned for qualification of the Mercury spacecraft. NASA secretly considered a manned mission but quickly dropped the idea when the dynamic pressures involved were reviewed. Little Joe 5A In April 1959, plans were made for three or four Mercury-Little Joe flights with animal passengers. NASA's project Mercury wouldn't orbit an American until 1962. But a month later the project was stopped, and NASA was handed the program in September 1959. Ten days later the first astronaut group was identified - consisting of Robert Walker, Scott Crossfield, Neil Armstrong, and Robert Rushworth. MISS Flight 1 In the USAF Man-In-Space Soonest program plan issued on 15 June 1958 targeted the first manned flight for April 1960. It was finally killed in July 1958, but then roled into Project Mercury by NASA - with the first manned flight of Mercury-Redstone not coming until April 1961 - after the Soviets had orbited the first man in space. The concept was opposed by both the USAF and NACA. Originally dubbed "Man Very High", the idea was to use an Army Ballistic Missile Agency Redstone rocket to boost a USAF Man High balloon gondola with a human 'test subject' on a suborbital trajectory. This modest $12 million project promised to have an American in space by the end of 1959, a year sooner than the Air Force's $100 million MISS (Man-In-Space-Soonest). Korolev decided to move directly to manned orbital flights using the Vostok spacecraft and R-7 booster.Īdam Flight 1 In February 1958, building on the success of his Redstone putting America's first satellite into space, Wernher von Braun proposed Project Adam. Although R-5A tests with dogs began in 1958, manned flights on the R-5A were not taken to the flight stage (despite rumors in 1959 of cosmonaut deaths in suborbital flights). Phase I of the plan involved ballistic manned sub-orbital flights aboard an R-5A single-stage IRBM. Is what might have been better than what was? Would America have beaten the Russians into space or even into orbit? Could the Russians have beaten the United States in the Moon Race? Would China have put a man in space 30 years earlier? Would the Skylab space station have been saved, and America be operating a shuttle-serviced space station 20 years before the ISS? Decisions that changed the course of history…įast Solutions Phase I In 1956 Korolev drafted a plan for 'Fast Solutions for the Conquest of Space'.