What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
27 Apr 2025 at 2:23pm
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.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp | National Air and Space Museum
29 Apr 2025 at 10:53am
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.
Gemini program | National Air and Space Museum
29 Apr 2025 at 4:13am
Project Gemini took place between the Mercury program, which was the United States' first human spaceflight program, and the Apollo program, which put the first human on the Moon. Mercury sent astronauts to space for longer periods of time than previously.
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.
Mercury Friendship 7 | National Air and Space Museum
8 Apr 2025 at 5:45pm
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.
What was the Gemini Program? | National Air and Space Museum
29 Apr 2025 at 4:23pm
No Mercury astronaut had spent more than 34 hours in space. Gemini missions needed to prove that humans could live in weightlessness for up to two weeks. Three Gemini missions in 1965 extended time in space from four to 14 days.
Remembering Chris Kraft: Pioneer of Mission Control
29 Apr 2025 at 3:54pm
He was the primary inventor of the mission control concept, and implemented it during Project Mercury and after, including training a cadre of controllers and creating a worldwide tracking network. He died on July 22, 2019, at age 95, just two days after the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
28 Apr 2025 at 1:46pm
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.
Motor, Solid Fuel, Project Mercury Retro; also Designated TE-316
22 Feb 2025 at 2:18am
Shown here is a retro rocket used to decelerate manned spacecraft in orbit in preparation for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere during NASA's Project Mercury in the 1960s. NASA acquired the engine on contract from the Thiokol Chemical Corporation's Elkton, Maryland production plant. The rocket produced a thrust of 1,000 pounds for ten seconds.
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27 Apr 2025 at 2:23pm
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.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp | National Air and Space Museum
29 Apr 2025 at 10:53am
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.
Gemini program | National Air and Space Museum
29 Apr 2025 at 4:13am
Project Gemini took place between the Mercury program, which was the United States' first human spaceflight program, and the Apollo program, which put the first human on the Moon. Mercury sent astronauts to space for longer periods of time than previously.
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.
Mercury Friendship 7 | National Air and Space Museum
8 Apr 2025 at 5:45pm
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.
What was the Gemini Program? | National Air and Space Museum
29 Apr 2025 at 4:23pm
No Mercury astronaut had spent more than 34 hours in space. Gemini missions needed to prove that humans could live in weightlessness for up to two weeks. Three Gemini missions in 1965 extended time in space from four to 14 days.
Remembering Chris Kraft: Pioneer of Mission Control
29 Apr 2025 at 3:54pm
He was the primary inventor of the mission control concept, and implemented it during Project Mercury and after, including training a cadre of controllers and creating a worldwide tracking network. He died on July 22, 2019, at age 95, just two days after the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
28 Apr 2025 at 1:46pm
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.
Motor, Solid Fuel, Project Mercury Retro; also Designated TE-316
22 Feb 2025 at 2:18am
Shown here is a retro rocket used to decelerate manned spacecraft in orbit in preparation for re-entry into the earth's atmosphere during NASA's Project Mercury in the 1960s. NASA acquired the engine on contract from the Thiokol Chemical Corporation's Elkton, Maryland production plant. The rocket produced a thrust of 1,000 pounds for ten seconds.
WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.
