BOOKS
Atkinson, Joseph D., and Jay M. Shafritz, The Real Stuff. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985.
Berry, C.A., Problems of Astronaut Selection. New York: American Rocket Society, 1962.
Carpenter, Scott, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton, We Seven. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
Cole, Michael D., Friendship 7: First American in Orbit (Countdown to Space). New York: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 1995. Reading level: Ages 9–12
Kallen, Stuart A., The Mercury Seven (Giant Leaps).New York: Abdo & Daughters, 1996. Reading level: Ages 9–12
Mercury Project Summary—Results of the Fourth Manned Orbital Flight (NASA Technical Report). Washington, DC: NASA, 1963. SP-45
Pitts, John A., The Human Factor: Biomedicine in the Manned Space Program to 1980. Washington, DC: NASA, 1985. SP-4213
Sipiera, Paul P., and Sipiera, Diane M., Project Mercury. New York: Children's Press, 1998.
Slayton, Donald K., and Michael Cassutt (Contributor), Deke!—U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle. New York: Reprint, 1995.
Swenson, Loyd S. Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander, This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Washington, DC: NASA, 1966. SP-4201
Wilson, A., The Eagle Has Wings: The Story of American Space Exploration 1945–1975. London: British Interplanetary Society, 1982.
Wilson, Charles L., Project Mercury Candidate Evaluation Program (WADC Technical Report 59-505). Dayton, OH: Wright Air Development Center, 1959.
Wolfe, Tom, The Right Stuff (fictional account). New York: Bantam Books, 1983. Fictional Account
ARTICLES
Carpenter, Scott, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton, "First Person Reports by the Astronauts." Life (September 1959): 626–43.
Fisher, Alan C., "Exploring Tomorrow with the Space Agency." National Geographic Magazine (July 1960): 50–81.
Lovelace, W.R., "Duckings, Probings, Checks that Proved Fliers' Fitness." Life 46(16) (April 1959): 22–29.
Weaver, Kenneth, "Countdown for Space." National Geographic Magazine (May 1961): 702–734.