Man In Space Soonest (MISS) was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to put a man into outer space before the Soviet Union. The program was cancelled...

the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which...

Stratojet.[citation needed] In 1958, Walker was one of the pilots selected for the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest (MISS) project, but that project...

started. Man In Space Soonest was a United States Air Force program to put an American astronaut in orbit. It was canceled when NASA was formed in August...

unmarried woman. Miss or MISS may also refer to: MISS or Man in Space Soonest, a U.S. Airforce space program that eventually became Project Mercury Miss....

Armed Forces prior to NASA's creation. The Air Force's Man in Space Soonest project formed in 1956, coupled with the Army's Project Adam, served as the...

absorbed military projects with the same aim, such as the Air Force Man in Space Soonest. Following the end of World War II, a nuclear arms race evolved between...

Aircraft Corporation were selected for the Man in Space Soonest project, a USAF initiative to put a man in space before the Soviet Union did. The project...

during this time that Crossfield was part of the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest project. On June 8, 1959, he completed the airplane's first flight...

S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest manned spaceflight program. The program ended early due to financial and technical difficulties. In 1961, he was selected...

project called Man in Space Soonest (MISS), for which it obtained approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and requested $133 million in funding. MISS...

National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy....

published. He was an astronaut candidate for the United States Air Force Man In Space Soonest program, but the program was cancelled on August 1, 1958, and replaced...

first three pilots in the next rocket-powered aircraft program, the X-15, and would have been part of the Man in Space Soonest project. In July 1958, Kincheloe...

program to launch the first man in space, named Man in Space Soonest. This program studied several different types of one-man space vehicles, settling on a...

would be transferred to NASA, as was the Man in Space Soonest program. Interservice rivalries over space persisted in 1959. Army Major General Medaris testified...

Lake. White would have participated in the Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program, had it come to fruition. In February 1961, White unofficially set...

into outer space, operations in outer space and return from outer space to Earth free from physical or radio-frequency interference." Space traffic includes...

F-104 and the F-107. In 1958, McKay was selected for and would have participated in the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program, had it come to...

The German space programme is the set of projects funded by the government of Germany for the exploration and use of outer space. The space programme is...

Proposal" for "Project 7969," an early USAF project to "Put a Man in Space Soonest (MISS)". Two of the four firms which responded, Martin and Avco, proposed...

Wings, though he would have attained that honor sooner had the USAF Man In Space Soonest project proceeded according to plan. On a later X-15 flight, he was...

tested an ASAT weapon. The test sparked concerns regarding the creation of space debris. The Indian government tried to address these concerns by saying...

Congress in 2011, named after then–United States Representative Frank Wolf, that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration...

NASA also took over the US crewed space program, Man In Space Soonest, from the Air Force, as Project Mercury. Early in John F. Kennedy's presidency, he...

Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) is an inter-governmental forum whose aim is to co-ordinate efforts to deal with debris in orbit around...

Space propaganda is a form of propaganda relating to achievements in space exploration and space science. It is used primarily to further a nation's perceived...

Government of its commercial space use, legislated in 2015. The update to US law explicitly allows US citizens and industries to "engage in the commercial exploration...

Astronautics (IAA), with the support of the International Institute of Space Law. The theories of PDPs constitute a distinct area of research but draw...

nine men who would serve as the first American astronauts in the Air Force's Man in Space Soonest ("MISS") program, to be launched into orbit on a Thor rocket...