What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
21 Sep 2022 at 11:58pm
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 frontier: space. Both nations started programs to send humans into space. In the United States, that program was Project Mercury.
Mercury program - National Air and Space Museum
4 Feb 2026 at 7:50am
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 the start of human spaceflight in the United States.
Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp
9 Nov 2015 at 11:54pm
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 out in their pressurized couch-cabins. Seven and one-half hours before the flight a second physical examination was given, followed by more sensor and psychomotor tests.
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
26 Jan 2026 at 4:22pm
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, and M. Scott Carpenter were the first four astronauts to fly in the program.
Gemini program - National Air and Space Museum
8 Feb 2026 at 7:39am
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 the Moon. Gemini sent astronauts to space for longer periods of time than previously.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp - National Air and Space Museum
28 Nov 2021 at 11:59pm
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 chimp flight. In October 1961, personnel from Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, brought three more chimpanzees to Cape Canaveral to join two already there.
Mercury Friendship 7 - National Air and Space Museum
4 Oct 2025 at 4:00pm
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 astronauts in 1961. Glenn's three-orbit mission on February 20, 1962, was a sterling success, as he overcame problems with the automatic control system that would have ended an unmanned flight. But reentry ...
Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]
22 Jan 2026 at 1:07pm
He became a medical monitor for Project Mercury in 1962, and in that capacity served as medical monitor for the earth-orbiting flight of John Glenn. He was later transferred to Washington, DC, where he served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations until his retirement.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
19 Feb 2017 at 11:58pm
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 Johnson, to check the reentry calculations of the new computer on the old desktop calculators.
Apollo program - National Air and Space Museum
6 Feb 2026 at 2:05am
Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis Explore other subtopics Spacecraft Human spaceflight Space Shuttle program Space stations Gemini program Apollo program Mercury program Commercial spaceflight Uncrewed spaceflight Artemis program
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21 Sep 2022 at 11:58pm
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 frontier: space. Both nations started programs to send humans into space. In the United States, that program was Project Mercury.
Mercury program - National Air and Space Museum
4 Feb 2026 at 7:50am
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 the start of human spaceflight in the United States.
Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp
9 Nov 2015 at 11:54pm
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 out in their pressurized couch-cabins. Seven and one-half hours before the flight a second physical examination was given, followed by more sensor and psychomotor tests.
Medal, Commemorative, Project Mercury, Vienna Mint
26 Jan 2026 at 4:22pm
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, and M. Scott Carpenter were the first four astronauts to fly in the program.
Gemini program - National Air and Space Museum
8 Feb 2026 at 7:39am
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 the Moon. Gemini sent astronauts to space for longer periods of time than previously.
Enos: The Forgotten Chimp - National Air and Space Museum
28 Nov 2021 at 11:59pm
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 chimp flight. In October 1961, personnel from Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, brought three more chimpanzees to Cape Canaveral to join two already there.
Mercury Friendship 7 - National Air and Space Museum
4 Oct 2025 at 4:00pm
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 astronauts in 1961. Glenn's three-orbit mission on February 20, 1962, was a sterling success, as he overcame problems with the automatic control system that would have ended an unmanned flight. But reentry ...
Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]
22 Jan 2026 at 1:07pm
He became a medical monitor for Project Mercury in 1962, and in that capacity served as medical monitor for the earth-orbiting flight of John Glenn. He was later transferred to Washington, DC, where he served in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations until his retirement.
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn?s Flight
19 Feb 2017 at 11:58pm
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 Johnson, to check the reentry calculations of the new computer on the old desktop calculators.
Apollo program - National Air and Space Museum
6 Feb 2026 at 2:05am
Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis Explore other subtopics Spacecraft Human spaceflight Space Shuttle program Space stations Gemini program Apollo program Mercury program Commercial spaceflight Uncrewed spaceflight Artemis program
WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.
