Kennedy Space Center, FL, United States
"...One of the most complex tasks ever presented to man in this country ··· the achievement of manned flight in orbit around the earth." - John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States. This marker commemorates the national aeronautics and space administration's project mercury, which
first put free men into space. The four manned orbital capsules were boosted into space by atlas rockets, which were launched by the united states air force from complex 14, located 2200 feet east of
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