PROJECT MERCURY VOLUME II: 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. MISSION PATCHES


3.  PHOTOGRAPHS - MISSION SPECIFIC


4.  VIDEO - History Of Space Travel, Episode 4: Freedom 7


5.  VIDEO - Trailblazer In Space: Ham The Chimp (1961) 


6.  VIDEO - Project Mercury Freedom 7 (1961)


7.  VIDEO - Project Mercury Summation (1963)