What was the Mercury Program? - National Air and Space Museum
Sep 22, 2022 · What Was The Mercury Program? In the late 1950s, he United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a competition for global influence and prestige—the Cold …
Mercury program - National Air and Space Museum
Nov 19, 2021 · Project Mercury was the United States' first program to put people in space. Beginning in 1958 and completed in 1963, the program made six crewed flights and marked …
Gemini program - National Air and Space Museum
Nov 19, 2021 · Project Gemini took place between the Mercury program, which was the United States' first human spaceflight program, and the Apollo program, which put the first human on …
Alan Shepard: First American in Space - National Air and Space …
Alan Shepard became the first American and the second man in space on May 5, 1961, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 490-kilometer (300-mile), 15-minute suborbital …
Katherine Johnson, Hidden Figures, and John Glenn’s Flight
Feb 20, 2017 · Five years after she came to Langley, the center became part of NASA and the home of America’s first human spaceflight project, Project Mercury. Johnson quickly graduated …
Apollo program - National Air and Space Museum
Dec 9, 2022 · Explore other subtopics Spacecraft Human spaceflight Space Shuttle program Space stations Gemini program Apollo program Mercury program Commercial spaceflight …
Spacesuits - National Air and Space Museum
The Mercury spacesuit was a close-fitting, two-layer, full pressure suit developed by the B.F. Goodrich Company from their Mark IV pressure suit, as used by the U.S. Navy. It was selected …
Eugene Kranz - National Air and Space Museum
Eugene Kranz played a critical role in many milestones in America's space program, serving as flight director for Apollo 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. He held a critical role in NASA's Mission …
The Space Race - National Air and Space Museum
Oct 26, 2023 · The Gemini Program Whereas the Mercury Program focused on getting people up into space, the Gemini Program's goal was for humans to learn how to do things in space, like …
Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp
Nov 10, 2015 · The Mercury Primate Capsule and Ham the Astrochimp exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum highlights the history of early space missions involving primates.