Project Mercury

English: Project Mercury

Insignia

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  Project Mercury insignia

Astronauts

Main category: Mercury Seven

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  The Mercury Seven
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  The Mercury Seven

Portraits

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  Alan Shepard
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  Gus Grissom
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  John Glenn
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  Scott Carpenter
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  Wally Schirra
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  Gordon Cooper
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  Deke Slayton

Spacesuit portraits

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  Alan Shepard
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  Gus Grissom
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  John Glenn
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  Scott Carpenter
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  Wally Schirra
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  Gordon Cooper
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  Deke Slayton
  *During the Apollo program

Spacecraft

Capsule

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  Schematic of the Mercury capsule
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  Capsule being tested in a wind tunnel at Langley
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  Boilerplate capsule
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  Boilerplate capsules
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  Capsule testing
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  museum

Launch vehicles

Main gallery: Mercury-Redstone booster gallery.

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  Mercury-Atlas
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Training and preparation

Test flights

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  First Mercury-Atlas test flight, which ended in the explosion of the rocket
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  Little Joe rocket being prepared at Wallops Flight Facility
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  High altitude abort test
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  Launch of Ham the chimpanzee
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  Sam the Monkey

Astronaut training

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  Procedures trainer
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  Weightless aircraft flight
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  Simulated flight trainer
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  Alan Shepard in a trainer
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  Scott Carpenter examining the heat shield of Aurora 7
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  Survival training
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  Jerrie Cobb, one of the Mercury 13

Missions

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  Mercury control room, prior to Sigma 7

Freedom 7

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  Launch of Freedom 7
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  Alan Shepard in flight
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  Alan Shepard being pulled from water
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  Alan Shepard on the flight deck after recovery of Friendship 7
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  Pres. Kennedy and others watching flight of Astronaut Shepard on television.

Liberty Bell 7

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Friendship 7

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  Glenn preparing for flight
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  Glenn preparing for flight
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  Glenn preparing for flight
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  Glenn preparing for flight
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  Launch of Friendship 7
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  Glenn in orbit
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  Glenn in orbit

Faith 7

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  Astronaut Gordon Cooper preparing for his launch
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  Cooper departing transfer van at Cape Canaveral
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  Launch of Faith 7
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  Recovery of Faith 7 on deck
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  Astronaut Cooper leaving Faith 7
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  sucess

Cultural depictions

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  1962 U.S. postage stamp