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NASA established the Space Task Group to manage the program, [6] which would conduct crewed sub-orbital flights with the Army's Redstone rockets and orbital flights with the Air Force's Atlas launch vehicles. While NASA intended for its first astronauts to be civilians, President Eisenhower directed that they be selected from the military.
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According to NASA, the sight included gigantic jets, a type of lightning discharge between thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere. Captured in a composite image, four long jets were seen shooting up from a thunderstorm towards the Himalayan Mountains within minutes of each other. Gigantic jets, only documented in this century, differ significantly from regular cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to ...
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