What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
Sep 22, 2022 · What Was The Mercury Program? In the late 1950s, he United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a competition for global influence and prestige—the Cold War—and began to …
Mercury program - National Air and Space Museum
Nov 19, 2021 · Project Mercury was the United States' first program to put people in space. Beginning in 1958 and completed in 1963, the program made six crewed flights and marked the start of human …
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn’s Flight
Feb 20, 2017 · Five years after she came to Langley, the center became part of NASA and the home of America’s first human spaceflight project, Project Mercury. Johnson quickly graduated into doing the …
Gemini program - National Air and Space Museum
Nov 19, 2021 · 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. …
Spacesuits - National Air and Space Museum
The Mercury spacesuit was a close-fitting, two-layer, full pressure suit developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from their Mark IV pressure suit, as used by the U.S. Navy. It was selected by NASA in …
Alan Shepard: First American in Space - National Air and Space Museum
Alan Shepard became the first American and the second man in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer (300-mile), 15-minute suborbital flight.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp - National Air and Space Museum
Nov 29, 2021 · He flew on NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) mission, which the relatively new space agency deemed necessary before orbiting an astronaut in a Mercury capsule. But Enos is little …
What was the Gemini Program? - National Air and Space Museum
Sep 22, 2022 · What Was The Gemini Program? If you have read the book The Right Stuff or watched the movie with the same name, you may know a thing or two about the Mercury program —which …
Glove, Mercury, Cooper, Training, Left - National Air and Space Museum
Jun 17, 2020 · Created by Jeannie Whited Date Created 06/17/2020 Source Smithsonian National Air and Spa Keywords Equipment; Flight Gear; Human Spaceflight; Mercury Program; Missions; People; …
The Myth of John Glenn’s Seven-Orbit Mission - National Air and Space ...
Feb 20, 2022 · Mercury Control Center during the first orbit of John Glenn's Friendship 7 mission. Each station in the worldwide tracking network was clearly shown with a circle. Three orbits by a human …