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- Title: PROJECT MERCURY VOLUME II: HISTORY IN TEXT, DRAWINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILM
- Author : Jeffrey Frank Jones & The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Release Date : January 07, 2013
- Genre: Science & Nature,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1356284 KB
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Project Mercury Goals
Initiated in 1958, completed in 1963, Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific:
To orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth;
To investigate man's ability to function in space;
To recover both man and spacecraft safely.
BOOK SUBJECTS By CHAPTER:
1. TEXT - PROJECT MERCURY OVERVIEW, MISSION SUMMARIES AND ASTRONAUT BIOGRAPHIES
2. MISSION PATCHES
3. PHOTOGRAPHS - MISSION SPECIFIC
4. VIDEO - History Of Space Travel, Episode 4: Freedom 7
5. VIDEO - Trailblazer In Space: Ham The Chimp (1961)
6. VIDEO - Project Mercury Freedom 7 (1961)
7. VIDEO - Project Mercury Summation (1963)