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The Slinky Mission ;
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Karol J. Bobko
ian martinez
Karol J. Bobko
Ian Martinez. he was the ice skater that lived many years
No Mercury 1 was not the first NASA mission, though the the Mercury project was NASA's first project, the first mission in the Mercury project and therefore the first NASA mission was Mercury-Big Joe launched on September 9, 1959.
Ian Martinez
Arguably Apollo 11 was NASA's most historic mission in which man first stepped on the surface of the moon.
I'm not sure there was a first person, but I think the first flight to have a slinky in space was Space Shuttle flight 51-D launched in 1985 with a crew of David Griggs, Charles Walker, Karol J. Bobko, Donald E. Williams, Rhea Seddon & Jeffrey Hoffman. It was a slinky toy called a slinky mouse
Jan 2, 1959