Project Mercury
The Mercury 7 On April 9, 1959, reporters and news media crammed into the ballroom of the Dolley Madison House…
On Nov. 5, 1958, NASA, newly established to lead America’s civilian space program, formally established the Space Task Group (STG)…
On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Circling the globe three times, his…
This series of diagrams should be especially interesting and useful for modelers and other space enthusiasts who want to see…
Born barely 20 years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, Alan Shepard grew up to fly combat missions in World…
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On May 16, 1963, NASA astronaut L. Gordon Cooper splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, completing the final mission of…
Walter “Wally” Schirra Wally Schirra was one of NASA’s first seven astronauts (the Mercury Seven) and the third American to…
