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- Title: Project Mercury Volume I: 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 : 549279 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. SPACECRAFT DRAWINGS
3. PHOTOGRAPHS - PROJECT EARLY DEVELOPMENT
4. VIDEO - The History of Mercury Mission Control (2013)
5. VIDEO - Astronauts: United States Project Mercury, ca. 1960
6. VIDEO - The John Glenn Story (1963)