Space Coast Daily

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: NASA Achieves First Successful Mercury-Atlas Launch with MA-2 Mission in 1961

On, NASA marked a major milestone in America’s early space program with the first successful launch of a Mercury-Atlas rocket. [...] ...
Space Coast Daily

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: John Glenn’s First Human Orbital Flight for NASA Celebrates 64th Anniversary

When Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human into space on April 12, 1961, the American space program rose to the occasion, and less than a month later, astronaut Alan Shepard became the ...
Electronic Design

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 ...
insider.si.edu

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 ...