Slide 1National Aeronautics and Space Administration Slide 2 PROJECT MERCURY Slide 3 Mercury Spacecraft The first U.S. spaceship was a cone-shaped one-man capsule with a…
Slide 1 A Brief History of Space Exploration Focus on manned space flight Little emphasis on non-US contributions VERY limited highlights of unmanned missions Slide 2 Robert…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Mercury - Background Project Mercury, born from America's first blueprints to put human crews in space, was also the genesis for some of the space hardware…
Slide 1 Project Mercury Slide 2 When was Project Mercury founded? Project Mercury was founded on October 7, 1958. Slide 3 Mercury’s Goals Started in 1958 and completed…