What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
5 Mar 2025 at 12:34pm
While the Mercury 7 were the most famous faces of project Mercury, they were supported by scores of people on the ground?including mathematicians like Katherine Johnson. Johnson, known today as a ?hidden figure,? was referred to as a ?human computer.? She was a mathematician who calculated the spacecraft trajectories for Project Mercury.
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
10 Jan 2025 at 9:09pm
Project Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program. Alan Shepard, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, John Glenn, and M. Scott Carpenter were the first four astronauts to fly in the program. Alan Shepard was the first American in space in a suborbital flight in May 1961, and Gus Grissom was the second in another suborbital flight in July 1961.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp | National Air and Space Museum
25 Feb 2025 at 4:12pm
Launch of Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) carrying Enos. (NASA) In front of Enos were three levers and several lights. Because he was to fly a three-orbit mission lasting nearly five hours?the prime objective for an astronaut in Project Mercury?he had a more elaborate set of cognitive tests than Ham, whose suborbital flight lasted 18 minutes.
Project Mercury Astronaut Photograph Burchfield
9 Jan 2025 at 11:05pm
Project Mercury was the United States' first human spaceflight program. Delmas D. "Del" Burchfield (1926-2016) was an engineer at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation who in 1959 was put in charge of the Outside Production Quality Program monitoring all vendors and subcontractors working on Project Mercury.
Project Mercury "Big Joe" Installation Records (Eiband Collection)
25 Nov 2024 at 8:17pm
Before launching a manned flight NASA planned a series of unmanned launches with the Mercury spacecraft/launch vehicle combinations to insure the success of later manned flights. The first successful launch of an instrumented Mercury boiler plate capsule, dubbed 'Big Joe' occurred on 9 September 1959 on an Atlas-10D booster from Cape Canaveral.
Mercury Friendship 7 | National Air and Space Museum
2 Mar 2025 at 3:15pm
Glenn's flight was the third manned mission of Project Mercury, following two suborbital flights by astronauts in 1961. Glenn's three-orbit mission on February 20, 1962, was a sterling success, as he overcame problems with the automatic control system that would have ended an unmanned flight.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
3 Mar 2025 at 5:02pm
In fall 1961, as the Mercury project prepared for Glenn?s launch on the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, Glenn asked one of the supervisors to have ?the girl,? meaning Johnson, to check the reentry calculations of the new computer on the old desktop calculators?he just was not comfortable with having his fate dependent on a ...
Heroes of Space: Scott Carpenter
5 Sep 2024 at 5:21pm
On 7 October 1958, when NASA was only a few months old, Project Mercury was created. Its aims were clear: it was a head-to-head competition with the Soviet Union in a race to head to space. In order to sift out the weak, NASA constructed a harsh, but necessary astronaut selection criterion.
Primate Capsule, Mercury | National Air and Space Museum
28 Dec 2024 at 12:32am
This primate capsule was used during the Mercury program, but it is not known whether it was on one of the two 1961 chimpanzee spaceflights. The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, now Johnson Space Center, transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1971. Display Status
Pressure Suit, Mercury, Glenn, Training - National Air and Space Museum
8 Nov 2024 at 8:19am
The spacesuit was developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from the U.S. Navy MK-IV full pressure suit, and was selected by NASA in 1959 for use in Project Mercury. It is made of a rubber interior pressure layer with a nylon exterior layer with an aluminized coating. NASA - Johnson Space Center transferred the training suit to the Museum in 1976.
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5 Mar 2025 at 12:34pm
While the Mercury 7 were the most famous faces of project Mercury, they were supported by scores of people on the ground?including mathematicians like Katherine Johnson. Johnson, known today as a ?hidden figure,? was referred to as a ?human computer.? She was a mathematician who calculated the spacecraft trajectories for Project Mercury.
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
10 Jan 2025 at 9:09pm
Project Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program. Alan Shepard, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, John Glenn, and M. Scott Carpenter were the first four astronauts to fly in the program. Alan Shepard was the first American in space in a suborbital flight in May 1961, and Gus Grissom was the second in another suborbital flight in July 1961.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp | National Air and Space Museum
25 Feb 2025 at 4:12pm
Launch of Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) carrying Enos. (NASA) In front of Enos were three levers and several lights. Because he was to fly a three-orbit mission lasting nearly five hours?the prime objective for an astronaut in Project Mercury?he had a more elaborate set of cognitive tests than Ham, whose suborbital flight lasted 18 minutes.
Project Mercury Astronaut Photograph Burchfield
9 Jan 2025 at 11:05pm
Project Mercury was the United States' first human spaceflight program. Delmas D. "Del" Burchfield (1926-2016) was an engineer at McDonnell Aircraft Corporation who in 1959 was put in charge of the Outside Production Quality Program monitoring all vendors and subcontractors working on Project Mercury.
Project Mercury "Big Joe" Installation Records (Eiband Collection)
25 Nov 2024 at 8:17pm
Before launching a manned flight NASA planned a series of unmanned launches with the Mercury spacecraft/launch vehicle combinations to insure the success of later manned flights. The first successful launch of an instrumented Mercury boiler plate capsule, dubbed 'Big Joe' occurred on 9 September 1959 on an Atlas-10D booster from Cape Canaveral.
Mercury Friendship 7 | National Air and Space Museum
2 Mar 2025 at 3:15pm
Glenn's flight was the third manned mission of Project Mercury, following two suborbital flights by astronauts in 1961. Glenn's three-orbit mission on February 20, 1962, was a sterling success, as he overcame problems with the automatic control system that would have ended an unmanned flight.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
3 Mar 2025 at 5:02pm
In fall 1961, as the Mercury project prepared for Glenn?s launch on the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, Glenn asked one of the supervisors to have ?the girl,? meaning Johnson, to check the reentry calculations of the new computer on the old desktop calculators?he just was not comfortable with having his fate dependent on a ...
Heroes of Space: Scott Carpenter
5 Sep 2024 at 5:21pm
On 7 October 1958, when NASA was only a few months old, Project Mercury was created. Its aims were clear: it was a head-to-head competition with the Soviet Union in a race to head to space. In order to sift out the weak, NASA constructed a harsh, but necessary astronaut selection criterion.
Primate Capsule, Mercury | National Air and Space Museum
28 Dec 2024 at 12:32am
This primate capsule was used during the Mercury program, but it is not known whether it was on one of the two 1961 chimpanzee spaceflights. The NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, now Johnson Space Center, transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1971. Display Status
Pressure Suit, Mercury, Glenn, Training - National Air and Space Museum
8 Nov 2024 at 8:19am
The spacesuit was developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from the U.S. Navy MK-IV full pressure suit, and was selected by NASA in 1959 for use in Project Mercury. It is made of a rubber interior pressure layer with a nylon exterior layer with an aluminized coating. NASA - Johnson Space Center transferred the training suit to the Museum in 1976.
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