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L59-4073 A model of the Mercury capsule undergoes flotation tests. -- Photograph published in Winds of Change, 75th...
Ablation Test of Mercury Capsule
Ablation Test of Mercury Capsule
The launch of the Mercury Atlas (MA-2), an unmarned suborbital Mercury capsule test on February 24, 1961.
Installation of the Mercury capsule on Redstone booster at the Redstone Test Stand. Assembled at the Marshall Space...
A mechanic at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Lewis Research Center prepares the inverted...
This photograph shows the installation of a Mercury capsule and escape system on top of a booster prior to test...
Model of Mercury capsule used for wind tunnel testing.
This photograph depicts installation of the Mercury capsule and escape system on top of a booster prior to test...
Photographed on: 12 09 58. -- Mercury capsule details, capsule in cargo bay of C-130 airplane prior to drop test,...
Photographed on: 12 09 58. -- Mercury capsule details, capsule in cargo bay of C-130 airplane prior to drop test,...
Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee, in the spacesuit he would wear for the second Mercury- Redstone (MR-2) suborbital...
A one-sixth scale model of the Mercury capsule being tested in the 300-mph 7 x 10-foot wind tunnel.
One-sixth scale model of Mercury space capsule model used in wind tunnel testing.
B60-00364 (4 Nov. 1959) --- Launch of Little Joe-2 from Wallops Island carrying Mercury spacecraft test article. The...
G61-00030 (4 Nov. 1959) --- Launch of Little Joe-2 from Wallops Island carrying Mercury spacecraft test article. The...
B59-00828 (21 Jan. 1959) --- The test subject, a rhesus monkey named Miss Sam, is seen encased in a model of the...
B59-00557 (9 Sept. 1959) --- U.S. Air Force photo of Big Joe launch vehicle after launching at Cape Canaveral,...
B59-00556 (9 Sept. 1959) --- U.S. Air Force photo of Big Joe launch vehicle after launching at Cape Canaveral,...
A Mercury capsule is mounted inside the Altitude Wind Tunnel for a test of its escape tower rockets at the National...
S61-01205 (29 July 1960) --- Launch of the unmanned Mercury Atlas-1 (MA-1) spacecraft for a suborbital test flight...
A NASA mechanic secures the afterbody to a Mercury capsule in the hangar at the Lewis Research Center. The capsule...
S88-31374 (29 April 1961) --- A close-up of astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in his space suit with his helmet on...
S61-01226 (21 Feb. 1961) --- Launch of the unmanned Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) vehicle for a suborbital test flight of...