40thAnniversary of the Mercury 7

Introduction
Biographies
Timeline
Photo Gallery
Documents
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Related Links

Related Links

Web Sites About Project Mercury:

Mercury 7 Archives
program overview, image library, unmanned missions, manned missions
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/

This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury 
by Loyd S. Swenson, Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4201/toc.htm

Results of the Second Manned Suborbital Space Flight, July 21, 1961 (NASA, 1961)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/MR-4/cover.htm

Results of the Second U.S. Manned Orbital Space Flight 
(NASA SP-6, 1962)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-6/cover.htm

Results of the Third U.S. Manned Orbital Space Flight
(NASA SP-12, 1962)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-12/cover.htm

Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission Journal
The complete transcript of comunications between Mission Control and Gus Grissom during his Liberty Bell 7 flight.
http://history.nasa.gov\40thmerc7\MR-4.html

Space Team Online: Spacewalking History
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/space/teachers/suited/4space1.html

U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation page
The Mercury Project
http://www.spacewalkoffame.com/1-merc/1-merc.html
 

Images of Project Mercury:

from the NASA-JSC Mercury Project web page
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/search/search.cgi?selections=MERMANOV&browsepage=Go&submit.x=12&submit.y=14
Mercury videos from NASA "Mercury Program"
http://www.education.ssc.nasa.gov/pdf/videos.pdf

Movies for sale from NASA about Mercury Project
http://education.nasa.gov/edprograms/core/home/index.html

Picture of Astronauts
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap960107.html

Marshall Space Flight Center Mercury Photo Gallery
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/mercury/gallery/index.html

50th Anniversary of the Mercury 7 Press Announcement
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/50th_announcement/
 

Project Mercury Games:

A-OK! The Wings of Mercury
computer simulation of Project Mercury
http://www.aokwom.com
 
 

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Updated November 2, 2009
Steve Garber, NASA History Web Curator
For further information E-mail histinfo@hq.nasa.gov