Sixty years ago, to welcome NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), now Johnson Space Center (JSC), the city of Houston threw a Texas-size Fourth of July celebration. The seven Mercury astronauts featured prominently in that Independence Day celebration in July 1962. Astronauts didn’t…
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