VOANews: History of the U.S. Space Program

VOA Special English News talks about the beginning of the United States space program that carried humans into space.

• 1 of 8: Project Mercury: The US Space Program Begins
• 2 of 8: In Race to Space, the Winner Was a Russian
• 3 of 8: Race to the Moon: The Days of Project Gemini
• 4 of 8: Race to the Moon: Gemini 6 and 7 Meet High Above Earth in 1965
• 5 of 8: Race to the Moon: NASA and the Early Apollo Flights of the 1960s
• 6 of 8: 'That's One Small Step for Man': The Apollo 11 Moon Landing
• 7 of 8: The Story of Apollo 13: 'Houston, We've Had a Problem Here'
• 8 of 8: NASA's Final Apollo Missions: The Last Footsteps on the Moon