Project mercury
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Project Mercury was NASA's first human spaceflight program with the goals of putting a man into space and returning him safely by 1963, though the Soviet Union was the first to achieve manned spaceflight. Unmanned tests of rockets and animal flights preceded the first American in space, Alan Shepard's suborbital flight in 1961. Further missions included Virgil Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 flight that had a hatch issue, and Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 mission that set a record for the longest Mercury flight at 34 hours.
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- 1. Project MercuryBy Sean Ruelle
- 2. Project Mercury Overview.Project Mercury was started on October, 7, 1958, and it’s primary goal was to get a man in space and to get him back safely (and maybe beat Russia to space). The project lasted five years and NASA achieved it’s primary goals(but we didn’t beat Russia.
- 3. Unmanned missions Before sending man up into space NASA made sure that the rockets would get the astronauts out of earths orbit. They also sent animals and fungi out before man to make sure that man could function in space.
- 4. FREEDOM 7On May 5, 1961 Alan B. Shepard, Jr., was the first American man in space. His mission was to see how well a man could function in space.
- 5. LIBERTY BELL 7Virgil I. Grissom was the man on the fourth space flight and his mission was to complete another suborbital of the earth. A problem occurred with the door to the space pod where the astronaut almost drown.
- 6. FAITH 7The longest mission in the mercury missions, and the goal was to have L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. to stay as long as possible in zero gravity as possible. He lasted 34 hours, 3 minutes, 30 seconds weightless, then he had to come back.