What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
18 May 2025 at 9:05am
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
16 May 2025 at 4:53pm
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 "Big Joe" Installation Records (Eiband Collection)
12 Jan 2025 at 3:23pm
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.
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
3 May 2025 at 5:12am
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.
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.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
16 May 2025 at 10:22pm
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 ...
What was the Gemini Program? | National Air and Space Museum
17 May 2025 at 11:44am
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.
Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]
7 May 2025 at 9:54am
This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization Manuals (3 manuals); Project Flight Controller Handbook; Operations Plan: Bioastronautic Support for Project Mercury; Project Mercury Familiarization Manual; Descriptive Synopsis of Project Mercury ...
Bob Gilruth: Architect of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo
16 May 2025 at 3:17am
He began with only 45 people and the daunting challenge of Project Mercury, which aimed to put an American in space before the Soviets. Under Gilruth?s superb leadership, STG expanded massively, chose the first seven astronauts in 1959, and began flying ?boilerplate? test capsules that same year.
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18 May 2025 at 9:05am
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
16 May 2025 at 4:53pm
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 "Big Joe" Installation Records (Eiband Collection)
12 Jan 2025 at 3:23pm
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.
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
3 May 2025 at 5:12am
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.
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.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
16 May 2025 at 10:22pm
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 ...
What was the Gemini Program? | National Air and Space Museum
17 May 2025 at 11:44am
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.
Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]
7 May 2025 at 9:54am
This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization Manuals (3 manuals); Project Flight Controller Handbook; Operations Plan: Bioastronautic Support for Project Mercury; Project Mercury Familiarization Manual; Descriptive Synopsis of Project Mercury ...
Bob Gilruth: Architect of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo
16 May 2025 at 3:17am
He began with only 45 people and the daunting challenge of Project Mercury, which aimed to put an American in space before the Soviets. Under Gilruth?s superb leadership, STG expanded massively, chose the first seven astronauts in 1959, and began flying ?boilerplate? test capsules that same year.
WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.
