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The Mercury capsule and escape tower are being lowered onto the Little Joe booster for launch on August 21, 1959....
Molds for couches for test pilots, line the NASA Langley Research Centers model shop wall. The names of the test...
NASA Project Mercury astronaut.
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Model of Mercury being tested in the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel.
The Mercury capsule and escape tower are being lowered onto the Little Joe booster for launch on August 21, 1959....
Water drop and recovery from shore-based crane at Langley's back river.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut. -- Carpenter was later known as M. Scott Carpenter.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut. -- Schirra was later known as Wally .
L59-1497-6 Maxime A. Faget was born in British Honduras in 1921, the son of an honored physician of the U.S. Public...
Test pilot in cockpit.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut. -- Cooper was later known as L. Gordon Cooper.
Model of Mercury (Redstone booster) carrying the spacecraft in the Unitary Plan wind tunnel for testing.
Testing of the Little Joe booster on its launcher. The launcher is positioned at its normal launch angle of 80...
Technicians attach the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to assembly with Little Joe launcher, August 20,...
Dyna-Soar Model In Full Scale Tunnel
Technicians prepare a full-scale capsule which would be used for the first rocket-launching on March 11, 1959. The...
The Mercury space capsule undergoing tests in Full Scale Wind Tunnel, January 1959. Photograph published in Winds of...
Assembling the Little Joe capsules. The capsules were manufactured in-house by Langley technicians. Three capsules...
Employees of Vought Astronautic, Scout's prime contractor, work with NASA technicians to prepare ST-3 for launch....
Mercury capsule model (Pohlhamus).
Mock-up of the Mercury capsule on display at the first NASA inspection held on October 24, 1959.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut. -- Grissom was later known as Gus .