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* 1962 – Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
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* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive
* 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms ' First Piano Concerto.
* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )
* 1962 – Iris Häussler, German artist
* 1901 – Lowell Stockman, American politician ( d. 1962 )
* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )
* 1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler
* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.
* 1962 – Vic Mignogna, American voice actor, singer, and director
* 1962 – Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1892 – Hoot Gibson, American actor ( d. 1962 )
* 1962 – Marc Lavoine, French singer and actor
* 1962 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-Hong Kong actress
* 1872 – Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1962 )
* 1962 – Louis Lipps, American football player
* 1962 – Kevin Mack, American football player
* 1962 – John " Hot Rod " Williams, American basketball player
* 1962 – Representatives from the Russian Orthodox Church and Vatican City meet in Metz, France, and come to an agreement wherein the Russian church would send observers to the Second Vatican Council and in exchange, the Roman Catholic Church would refuse to condemn Communism.
* 1879 – John Ireland, English composer ( d. 1962 )
* 1890 – Ellen Osiier, Danish fencer ( d. 1962 )
* 1962 – Thanos Kalliris, Greek singer-songwriter ( Bang )
* 1962 – John Slattery, American actor
1962 and Mercury
In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:
* 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.
John Glenn became the first American ( third overall, following Gagarin and Titov ) to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, during the third manned Mercury flight.
The Mariner program was a program conducted by the American space agency NASA in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) that launched a series of robotic interplanetary probes designed to investigate Mars, Venus and Mercury from 1962 to 1973.
* 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
The Project Mercury astronauts with a model of an SM-65 Atlas | Atlas rocket, July 12, 1962.
Still, controversy remained, and fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra, at the end of his October 3, 1962 flight, remained inside his spacecraft until it was safely aboard the recovery ship, and made a point of deliberately blowing the hatch to get out, bruising his hand.
* Max Born ( 1924 ), Einstein's Theory of Relativity ( The 1962 Dover edition, page 348 lists a table documenting the observed and calculated values for the precession of the perihelion of Mercury, Venus, and Earth.
" The Mercury astronauts in 1962 attributed Murphy's law to U. S. Navy training films.
The turning point for Michael Collins in his decision to become an astronaut was the Mercury Atlas 6 flight of John Glenn on February 20, 1962, and the thought of being able to circle the Earth in 90 minutes.
* A Man Named Thin ( Mercury Mystery, 1962 ).
The first modified ( in fact simplified ) Hasselblad 500C cameras were used on the last two Project Mercury missions in 1962 and 1963.
Much less successful was another Space Adventures superhero, Mercury Man, star of two stories in 1962.
When NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter launched into space on Mercury capsule Aurora 7 in 1962, he was carrying with him the first solid space food small food cubes developed by Pillsbury's research and development department.
It also includes Operation Dirty Trick, a plot to blame Castro if the 1962 Mercury manned space flight carrying John Glenn crashed, saying: " The objective is to provide irrevocable proof that, should the MERCURY manned orbit flight fail, the fault lies with the Communists et al.
IBM 7090's at NASA's Project Mercury, 1962.
Mercury-Atlas 7 was the second American orbital Mercury program manned space mission, launched May 24, 1962.
He drives a " vintage Woodie ," a 1962 Mercury.
* 1962 Don't Worry ' bout Me ( Mercury )
For 1962 and 1963, the Comet shared a considerable number of body and mechanical parts with the short-lived Mercury Meteor intermediate.
Comet was officially made a Mercury model for the 1962 model year, and it received some minor restyling, mainly a redesign of the trunk and taillight area to bring the car more in line with the Mercury look.
It was also the launch site for the first spacecraft to ever fly past the other planets in the Solar System ( 1962 – 1977 ), the first spacecraft to orbit Mars ( 1971 ) and roam its surface ( 1996 ), the first American spacecraft to orbit and land on Venus ( 1978 ), the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn ( 2004 ), and to orbit Mercury ( 2011 ).
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