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First Flights into the Unknown!

Do you long for adventure? Crave a chance to probe outer space? Are you 10 years old and grounded for forgetting to take out the trash?

What are you to do?

No worries! Reach for your Space Adventure comic book and begin your exploration of the final frontier!

These pages chronicle the most important missions launched by NASA in the 1960s. They were broken down into three separate programs, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.

Today we will focus on the Mercury program.

The countdown clock has started. The CAPCOM says all systems are go. You reply, A-OK! The engines light up and—

Lift off!

Comic book description of the mercury three space light.
Comic book description of Mercury III in Orbit.
Comic book illustration of the beginning of the Mercury Six space mission with John Glenn.
Comic book description of Mercury 6 in Orbit
Comic book description of Mercury Six in trouble
Comic book description of Mercury Six splash down
Comic book description of Mercury 7 and 8 missions
Comic book description of the Mercury 9 mission.
Comic book description of Splashdown of Mercury 9

Next week we will explore outer space with the Gemini crews. Until then, remember that your window to adventure an excitement is GVS, Glorious Vintage Stuff.

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