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The launch of the Mercury-Redstone (MR-3), Freedom 7. MR-3 placed the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, in...
The launch of the Little Joe booster for the LJ1B mission on the launch pad from the wallops Flight Facility,...
Liftoff of MR-4 (Mercury-Redstone), Liberty Bell 7, on July 21, 1961. MR-4 mission was the second marned suborbital...
Scale model of Mercury capsule shape A, indicating the position of the astronaut.
A Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle awaits test-firing in the Redstone Test Stand during the late 1950s. Between 1953...
Testing of Mercury Capsule Shape A by the Hydrodynamics Division of Langley. Joseph Shortal wrote (vol. 3, p. 19):...
In this 1959 photograph, technicians prepare tail sections for Mercury-Redstone vehicles in Building 4706 at...
A three-year-old chimpanzee, named Ham, in the biopack couch for the MR-2 suborbital test flight. On January 31,...
This photograph depicts installation of the Mercury capsule and escape system on top of a booster prior to test...
Scale model of Mercury capsule shape A, indicating the position of the astronaut.
The Redstone Test Stand was used during the 1950s in early development of the Redstone missile propulsion system....
Ham, a three-year-old chimpanzee, in the spacesuit he would wear for the second Mercury- Redstone (MR-2) suborbital...
Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. lifts off in the Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft on May 5, 1961. This third flight of...
Project Mercury: M-1 model in the 11ft w.t. with engineer
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- CHAMBER TEST - Project Mercury astronaut Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom, assisted by...
S62-01358 (1962) --- Project Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7)...
This orthographic projection view from NASA MESSENGER spacecraft provides a look at Mercury north polar region. The...
Project Mercury: With Project Mercury, the United States gained its first experience in conducting human space...
Project Mercury: With Project Mercury, the United States gained its first experience in conducting human space...
January 1962 -- Project Mercury Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., prime pilot for the MA-6 mission.
Testing of the Little Joe booster on its launcher. The launcher is positioned at its normal launch angle of 80...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- READIED FOR FLIGHT - Project Mercury's second manned suborbital space flight, Liberty...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Project Mercury Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, primary pilot for the Mercury-Redstone 4...
B59-00570 (August 1959) --- Astronaut Scott Carpenter trains at the centrifuge procedures trainer at Wright Field,...