America’s first human space program began in 1959 with the Mercury Program. The Mercury Program’s 3rd mission carried Alan Shepard in the Freedom 7 space capsule one hundred and sixteen miles to space at a speed of fifty one hundred and eighty miles per hour, mission duration was fifteen minutes. That flight took place on […]
A space asset in New Mexico, Operationally Responsive Space (ORS)
One of the space assets we have in New Mexico we don’t know much about is the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. On June 29th at 11pm, they launched ORS-1 satellite on a Minotaur 1 rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), part of the NASA Wallops Island […]
