What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
Sep 22, 2022 · 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 compete on a new …
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 …
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp - National Air and Space Museum
Nov 29, 2021 · Despite questions from the press and from the office of NASA Administrator James Webb, Project Mercury officials under Robert Gilruth confirmed that MA-5 would be a …
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 …
Alan Shepard: First American in Space - National Air and Space …
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 …
Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp
Nov 10, 2015 · A History of Project Mercury details what happened next: At nineteen hours before launch these two animals were put on low-residue diets, fitted with biosensors, and checked …
Mercury Friendship 7 - National Air and Space Museum
In this historic capsule, John H. Glenn Jr. became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn's flight was the third manned mission of Project Mercury, following two suborbital flights by …
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn’s Flight
Feb 20, 2017 · 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 …
Remembering Chris Kraft: Pioneer of Mission Control
Jul 24, 2019 · Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. is an appropriate name for a pioneering space explorer. Kraft did not explore space himself, but he made it possible for American astronauts …
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
This Project Mercury commemorative medal was struck by the Vienna Mint. Project Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program. Alan Shepard, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, John Glenn, …