Project Mercury
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Insignia [modifica]
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Project Mercury insignia
Astronauts [modifica]
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The Mercury Seven
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The Mercury Seven
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Gordon Cooper posing in suit
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Virgil Grissom in suit
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Gordon Cooper Jr.
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Wally Schirra
Spacecraft [modifica]
Capsule [modifica]
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Schematic of the Mercury capsule
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Capsule being tested in a wind tunnel at Langley
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Boilerplate capsule
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Boilerplate capsules
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Capsule testing
Launch vehicles [modifica]
- Galleria principale: Mercury-Redstone booster gallery.
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Mercury-Atlas
Training and preparation [modifica]
Test flights [modifica]
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First Mercury-Atlas test flight, which ended in the explosion of the rocket
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Little Joe rocket being prepared at Wallops Flight Facility
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High altitude abort test
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Launch of Ham the chimpanzee
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Sam the Monkey
Astronaut training [modifica]
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Procedures trainer
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Weightless aircraft flight
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Simulated flight trainer
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Alan Shepard in a trainer
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Scott Carpenter examining the heat shield of Aurora 7
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Survival training
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Jerrie Cobb, one of the Mercury 13
Missions [modifica]
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Mercury control room, prior to Sigma 7
Freedom 7 [modifica]
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Launch of Freedom 7
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Alan Shepard in flight
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Alan Shepard being pulled from water
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Alan Shepard on the flight deck after recovery of Friendship 7
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Pres. Kennedy and others watching flight of Astronaut Shepard on television.
Liberty Bell 7 [modifica]
Friendship 7 [modifica]
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Glenn preparing for flight
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Glenn preparing for flight
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Glenn preparing for flight
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Glenn preparing for flight
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Launch of Friendship 7
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Glenn in orbit
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Glenn in orbit
Faith 7 [modifica]
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Astronaut Gordon Cooper preparing for his launch
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Cooper departing transfer van at Cape Canaveral
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Launch of Faith 7
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Recovery of Faith 7 on deck
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Astronaut Cooper leaving Faith 7
Cultural depictions [modifica]
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1962 U.S. postage stamp
