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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its...111 KB (11,852 words) - 12:05, 13 August 2024
crewed capsules include Vostok, Mercury, Voskhod, Gemini, and Apollo, and active programs include the New Shepard launches. A crewed space capsule must...33 KB (4,178 words) - 09:01, 28 April 2024- The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...21 KB (2,603 words) - 16:27, 18 February 2024
atmospheric re-entry. Shepard named his space capsule Freedom 7, setting a precedent for the remaining six Mercury astronauts naming their spacecraft and...32 KB (3,890 words) - 21:15, 6 May 2024
The capsule and Ham, the first great ape in space, landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes and 39 seconds after launch. The previous Mercury-Redstone...13 KB (1,246 words) - 03:36, 28 February 2024- composition. René 41 was used to create the outer shell of the Mercury space capsule, due to its ability to retain high strength at very high temperatures...2 KB (116 words) - 23:42, 2 June 2024
capsule "Friendship 7", the seven in honor of the seven original astronauts selected for Mercury, a tradition inadvertently started by prior Mercury pilot...42 KB (4,953 words) - 15:16, 18 July 2024
Project Gemini (redirect from Gemini space capsule)spaceflight program to fly. Conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in early development, Gemini...69 KB (6,789 words) - 20:58, 12 July 2024
Aviation. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II North American F-86D Sabre Mercury Space Capsule Messerschmitt Me 262 (Reproduction by Legend Flyers) Mikoyan Guryevich...23 KB (2,380 words) - 21:07, 29 May 2024
crew-safety system connected to a space capsule. It is used in the event of a critical emergency to quickly separate the capsule from its launch vehicle in case...17 KB (1,827 words) - 22:00, 16 May 2024
Little Joe 2 (category Project Mercury)test of the Mercury space capsule, carrying the rhesus monkey Sam (Macaca mulatta) close to the edge of space. He was sent to test the space equipment and...3 KB (256 words) - 22:37, 13 September 2023
Aeronautics and Space Administration. Korando, R. D. (February 6, 1961). Mercury Capsule No. 2 Configuration Specification (Mercury-Redstone No. 1) (PDF)...8 KB (402 words) - 08:29, 10 November 2023
immediately after the Mercury-Redstone rocket started to move, it shut itself down and settled back on the pad, after which the capsule jettisoned its escape...17 KB (2,103 words) - 22:27, 18 July 2024
Ham (chimpanzee) (redirect from Ham the space chimp)into space. On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury. Ham's...23 KB (2,323 words) - 00:14, 22 June 2024
capsule is the portion of a space capsule which returns to Earth following a spaceflight. The shape is determined partly by aerodynamics; a capsule is...15 KB (1,944 words) - 17:03, 27 June 2024
Enos (chimpanzee) (redirect from Enos the space chimp)identical mission with a "crewman simulator" on board. Enos flew into space aboard Mercury-Atlas 5 on November 29, 1961. He completed his first orbit in 1 hour...7 KB (610 words) - 17:14, 29 November 2023
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida...22 KB (2,946 words) - 20:58, 1 January 2024
astronaut Scott Carpenter. He was the sixth human to fly in space. The mission used Mercury spacecraft No. 18 and Atlas launch vehicle No. 107-D. The flight...28 KB (2,873 words) - 00:02, 22 January 2024
Human spaceflight (redirect from Manned space missions)Friendship 7 on a Mercury-Atlas rocket. The USSR launched five more cosmonauts in Vostok capsules, including the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova...99 KB (10,517 words) - 15:43, 13 June 2024
visitors went through that first year. As the American space program's popularity grew with the Mercury Program and Alan Shepard's historic launch, large numbers...39 KB (4,355 words) - 09:52, 24 July 2024
- before his capsule was located. July 13 Convair's MX-774 test vehicle, later designated the Atlas and used as a launch vehicle in the Mercury program, was
- Friday morning in May 1961, when he lay inside a tiny Mercury capsule ready to be hurled into space atop a Redstone booster. Andrew Chaikin (August 2, 1998)
- The Mercury Capsule Werner Von Braun German scientist and creator of the German V-2 rocket which devastated London during WWII. He would prove instrumental