Read below for a complete list of astronauts who trained at Morehead, as well as the missions they completed. Photo courtesy of UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries. Elliott M. See Jr. Notes: STS is …

Dec 20, 2023 · Astronauts used their Morehead training to navigate using celestial objects, "sighting the stars" routinely to correct for periodic inaccuracies in navigation. They also used …

First opened in 1949, the dome theater in planetarium was used to train astronauts from the Gemini, Apollo, Mercury, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz missions in celestial navigation. Eleven of …

Jul 14, 2014 · The Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina was an instrumental place for teaching Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab astronauts about the …

Jan 1, 2013 · Nearly every U.S. astronaut until 1975 — yes, including Neil, Buzz, John, and Alan — trained at Morehead Planetarium. That’s where they learned to navigate outer space.

Jul 16, 2015 · Astronauts of NASA's Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab programs received their navigation training at Carolina's Morehead Planetarium. Astronauts sit in Morehead using …

Between 1960 and 1975, nearly every astronaut who participated in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs trained at Morehead. Several astronauts who later flew on …

From 1960 until 1975, NASA sent astronauts to Morehead Planetarium to learn how to use the stars to navigate. Venture into the planetarium's dome in the 60s and early 70s, and you might...

Mar 18, 2015 · The marker commemorates Morehead’s history as a center for NASA astronaut training in the 1960s and early 1970s. Sixty-two astronauts, including 11 men who walked on …

Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history by leaving footprints in lunar dust. But before Apollo 11 made history, the two astronauts trained right …