Project Mercury

Project Mercury was the United States's first successful manned spaceflight program. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the Earth. Early planning and research was carried out by NACA, while the program was officially carried out by the newly created NASA. The name Mercury comes from the Roman god (it is also the name of the innermost planet of the solar system).

External links

• The Mercury Project (Kennedy Space Center)
• Project Mercury A Chronology (Prepared by James M. Grimwood)
• Space Medicine In Project Mercury By Mae Mills Link
• Project Mercury Drawings and Technical Diagrams
• Technical Diagrams and Drawings
• Mercury-Atlas Diagrams
• Project Mercury Simulator for the PC (Orbiter)
• Project Mercury Simulator for the Mac
• The Mercury Redstone Project (PDF) December 1964
• Project Mercury familiarization manual (PDF) November 1961
• Various PDFs of historical Mercury documents including familiarization manuals.