Project Mercury Volume III: History In Text, Drawings, Photographs And Film

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. MISSION PATCHES


4. PHOTOGRAPHS - PROJECT EARLY DEVELOPMENT


5. PHOTOGRAPHS - MISSION SPECIFIC


6. VIDEO - Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 1 Launch (NASA; 1961; 14 Minutes)


7.  VIDEO - The Mastery Of Space (NASA; 1960s; 55 Minutes)