Vaccines in Space (1962)
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✎ Suggest a correctionThis news segment for Houston’s KPRC-TV, broadcast on July 27, 1962, asks, are infectious diseases transmissible in outer space? The interviewee clarifies that NASA takes preventative measures to ensure astronauts are not carrying diseases before spaceflight. This interview was conducted in the midst of NASA’s Project Mercury, which sent the first US astronaut, John Glenn, into space in 1962.
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