Project Mercury NASA

About Project Mercury

Initiated in 1958, completed in 1963, Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific:

- To orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth
- To investigate man's ability to function in space
- To recover both man and spacecraft safely

• Mercury Overview
  
  
  
  • Introduction
  
  
  • Objectives and Guidelines
  
  
  • Astronaut Selection
  
  
  • Summary
  
  
  
  


• Mercury Spacecraft


• Mercury Unmanned Missions


• Mercury Manned Missions


• This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury


• Mercury Technical Diagrams/Drawings


• 40th Anniversary of Mercury 7


• Johnson Space Center Mercury Image Directory


• First 100 U.S. Human Space Flights

Image: Collage of the Mercury Program. Astronauts are shown from the left, M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. "Deke" Slayton. Also seen is the spacecraft, capsule and technical drawing of the capsule. Image Credit: NASA

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