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Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

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Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

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Mercury Project, NASA Mercury project

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The original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project pose in front of an Air Force Jet. From left to right: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Gus Grissom, Walter M. Wally Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, and Donald K. Deke Slayton.

The Space Race began with a shock to the American public when the Soviet satellite Sputnik was launched in 1957. United states created NASA accelerate U.S. space exploration efforts and launched the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. The Soviet Union was first again when it puts the first human, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, into a single orbit on April 12, 1961. Shortly after this, on May 5, the U.S. launched Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight and reached its orbital goal on February 20, 1962, when John Glenn made three orbits around the Earth in the Mercury capsule. The Mercury space capsule was a pressurized cabin produced by McDonnell Aircraft and carried supplies of water, food, and oxygen for about one day. Mercury was launched on a top of modified Atlas D ballistic missiles. The capsule was fitted with a launch escape rocket to carry it safely away from the launch vehicle in case of a failure. Small retrorockets were used to bring the spacecraft out of its orbit, after which an ablative heat shield protected it from the heat of atmospheric reentry. Finally, a parachute slowed the craft for a water landing. Both astronaut and capsule were recovered by helicopters deployed from a U.S. Navy ship. The Mercury project missions were followed by millions on radio and TV around the world. Its success laid the groundwork for Project Gemini, which carried two astronauts in each capsule and perfected space docking maneuvers essential for manned lunar landings in the Apollo program announced just a few weeks after the first manned Mercury launch.

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15/04/2004
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Project Mercury

The first human spaceflight program of the United States.
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Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, 35808 ,  34.63076, -86.66505
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label_outline Explore Slayton, Gordon Cooper, Schirra

An SA-330 Puma helicopter assigned to the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) participates in a replenishment-at-sea with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70).

Posing from left to right, US Navy (USN) Lieutenant (LT) Kent Hepler, Frank Dorney, Janeane Robinson, Lieutenant Commander (LCDR) Steve Shepard and LCDR Joseph Quirk with boxes of donated toys collected by Operation KEIKI ALOHA, in support of Operation UNIFIED ASSISTANCE

Schirra Reflects. NASA public domain image colelction.

The Military Sealift Command Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) is reflected in a porthole of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)

Commander Donald W. Shepard, USN (covered)

US Air Force (USAF) F-15C Eagle fighter Pilots from the 27th Fighter Squadron (FS) at Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA), returning from a mandatory evacuation to Grissom Air Reserve Base (ARB), Indiana (IN). Langley evacuated all flyable aircraft parked on their runway before Hurricane Isabel made landfall

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom fuels training leaves no Airman behind

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Between 1962 and 1963, the Mission Control Center was modified to handle the additional complexities of the Gemini Program. In 1962, Pan American World Airways Inc. was contracted to design an addition to the facility, which wrapped around the east, north, and most of the west and south sides. The Mercury Mission Control Center in Florida played a key role in the United States' early spaceflight program. Located at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, the original part of the building was constructed between 1956 and 1958, with additions in 1959 and 1963. The facility officially was transferred to NASA on Dec. 26, 1963, and served as mission control during all the Project Mercury missions, as well as the first three flights of the Gemini Program, when it was renamed Mission Control Center. With its operational days behind, on June 1, 1967, the Mission Control Center became a stop on the public tour of NASA facilities until the mid-90s. In 1999, much of the equipment and furnishings from the Flight Control Area were moved to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex where they became part of the exhibit there. The building was demolished in spring 2010. Photo credit: NASA KSC-LOC-63-5635

Portrait - Full-Lenth - Mercury Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. - Spacesuit

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) makes its approach to the Military Sealift Command Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) during an underway replenishment.

Gemini 5 Launch, NASA Gemini program

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