OTD in space - May 15: Last flight of NASA's Mercury program

On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was ...
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter Is Dead at 88

American astronaut Scott Carpenter in his space suit. He is the prime pilot for the USA's second manned space orbit, launched in May 1962. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) Scott Carpenter, one of two ...
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The Mercury mission that forced NASA to rely on human piloting skills

One of the most remarkable moments in early space exploration occurred during the final mission of NASA’s Mercury program. Astronaut Gordon “Gordo” Cooper spent more than a day in orbit aboard the ...
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Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne: Two Different Missions that Shaped the Space Race (Part 2)

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 ...
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Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]

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 ...
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Mercury Program

Bellcomm, Inc Technical Library Collection, Accession XXXX-0093, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. In 1958, Project Mercury was selected as the first American manned space ...