astronauts

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/16/19
  

  Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

  For a brief moment, the civil rights movement and the space race came together.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  12-28-15
  

  The day when three NASA astronauts staged a strike in space

  by Michael Hiltzik

  "We would never work 16 hours a day for 84 straight days on the ground, and we should not be expected to do it here in space." - Skylab 4 Commander Jerry Carr to NASA, just before the crew went on strike

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  10-10-13
  

  Scott Carpenter, pioneering astronaut and 2nd American in orbit, dies at age 88

  Carpenter's death leaves John Glenn as the only member of the Mercury Seven still living.