Out of This World: New Mexico’s Contributions to Space Travel.

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Out of this World: New Mexico & Space Shuttle People have dreamed of traveling into space for thousands of years, but atmospheric flight by balloon was once not achieved until the late eighteenth century. Powered flight took another 120 years to became a reality. Progress toward space Shuttle accelerated swiftly all the way through the twentieth century, with manned orbital flights being achieved less than sixty years after the Wright Brothers’ first airplane flight. The amazingly quick development of the US’ space program resulted from the efforts of thousands of people scattered during the country. Many the most important experiments took place in New Mexico. Out of this World tells the stories-ranging from hair raising to humorous-of people and animals who worked to develop powerful liquid-fuel rockets, decide the hazards of cosmic radiation, examine the physical and psychological effects of weightlessness, test spacecraft components and safety equipment, devise and implement procedures to evaluate astronaut candidates, search the skies for destinations, scrutinize UFO appearances and conceivable alien landings on Earth, train astronauts for Moon missions, and-in the long run-construct the first purpose-built spaceport for recreational and commercial flights. New Mexico has provided fertile soil for cultivating space Shuttle for fun and profit.

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