The film "Astronauts: United States Project Mercury," released in 1960, documents the rigorous training of America's first seven astronauts as part of NASA's Project Mercury. It highlights the ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was one of four parks in the eastern U.S. where the Dragonfly Mercury Project got its start. Easier to catch and cheaper to test than fish, dragonfly larvae can be ...

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 ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...

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Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...