On this day (31-Jan) in the year 1961, NASA launched Mercury - Redstone 2 (MR-2) as a part of its space program Project Mercury, a program to launch first American into Space...
Before sending people into space, NASA carried out a series of unmanned test flights leading to MR-2... NASA successfully launched the MR-2 with "Ham", the chimpanzee into space... The success of this mission led to NASA's goal of getting a man in Space...
The stamp features, "Friendship 7", the first manned space capsule flown by John Glenn successfully orbited around the Earth...
This stamp can be collected under the themes:
(a) Outer Space / Space travel...
(b) Spacecrafts...
(c) Satellites...
(d) Space missions...
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