Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) mission, stands fully suited beside his spacecraft during preflight…
Gordon Cooper leaves the Hangar S altitude chamber following a five-Hour training session.
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) Earth-orbital spaceflight, leaves Hanger “S” at Cape Canaveral on…
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) Earth-orbital spaceflight, goes through a suiting-up exercise in Hanger…
Mercury astronauts L. Gordon Cooper, left, and Wally Schirra check MA-8 spacecraft in the Hangar S white room at Cape…
A Mercury spacecraft is moved into the altitude chamber inside Hangar S.
Personnel in Hangar S at Cape Canaveral, Florida, prepare Wally Schirra’s Mercury 8 capsule nicknamed “Sigma 7” for delivery to…
President Kennedy signed the Communications Satellite Act which created the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat). The law also committed the US…
Mariner 2 was launched a month after Mariner 1 veered off course right after launch. NASA’s first interplanetary program was…
Scott Carpenter is fully suited and is having his gloves adjusted
