Here’s what the beginning of the Space Age looked like.
In 1958, a scientist works on preparing a rocket for launch.
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Welcome to Hotel NASA. Here's a bedroom at NASA in 1950.
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Cape Canaveral in 1958.
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1959: Astronauts on the Project Mercury mission — the first human spaceflight mission ever. We were working on beating the Russians then.
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