Project Mercury Volume I: 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. 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)