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Mercury -- May 1963

Mercury astronaut L. Gordon …

7/16/08

Description	Mercury astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. is wearing a spacesuit during Mercury-Atlas 9 prelaunch activities.
Date	7/16/08

Mercury -- April 1959

NASA introduced the Project …

8/25/08

Description	NASA introduced the Project Mercury astronauts to the world on April 9, 1959, only six months after the agency was established. Known as the Mercury Seven or Original Seven, they are (front row, left to right) Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, (back row) Alan B. Shepard Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Date	8/25/08

Mercury -- May 1961

Mercury-Redstone 3 pilot Ala …

7/16/08

Description	Mercury-Redstone 3 pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. is wearing the Mercury pressure suit and holding his helmet.
Date	7/16/08

Mercury -- February 1962

Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., …

7/16/08

Description	Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., NASA flight surgeon William Douglas and equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt leave crew quarters prior to the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission. Glenn is in his pressure suit and is carrying the portable ventilation unit.
Date	7/16/08

Mercury -- September 1962

Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" …

7/16/08

Description	Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 Earth-orbital spaceflight, goes through a suiting-up exercise at Cape Canaveral several weeks prior to his scheduled Oct. 3, 1962 flight.
Date	7/16/08

Mercury -- 1961

The Mercury suit included gl …

7/16/08

Description	The Mercury suit included gloves, boots and a helmet.
Date	7/16/08

Mercury -- July 1961

Donning a spacesuit for the …

9/24/08

Description	Donning a spacesuit for the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission, astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom chats with spaceflight equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt in the personal equipment room of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Date	9/24/08

Mercury -- 1962

Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter …

7/16/08

Description	Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter is wearing a Mercury pressure suit during astronaut training at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Date	7/16/08

The Road to Apollo

A full-scale model of the Me …

3/16/09

Description	A full-scale model of the Mercury capsule was tested in the Langley 30- by 60-Foot Full-Scale Wind Tunnel. Managed at Langley Research Center, the objectives of the Mercury program were quite specific -- to orbit a crewed spacecraft around the Earth, to investigate the ability of humans to function in space and to recover both human and spacecraft safely. Project Mercury accomplished the first orbital flight made by an American, astronaut John Glenn. Credit: NASA
Date	3/16/09

Mercury 7 50th Anniversary

The Mercury 7 astronauts exa …

4/10/09

Description	The Mercury 7 astronauts examining their "couches." Each astronaut had his own couch specifically molded to fit his body to help withstand the G-loads of the launch. Plaster casts of the astronauts were created in order to properly mold the couches. Left to right: Alan Sheppard, John Glenn, Walter Schirra, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom and Bob Gilruth. Gilruth was Director of the Space Task Group, which planned and managed the Mercury Project.
Date	4/10/09

Astronaut John Glenn During Mercury-Atlas 6 Pre-launch Activities

Astronaut John Glenn During …

Title	Astronaut John Glenn During Mercury-Atlas 6 Pre-launch Activities
Full Description	Astronaut John Glenn gives ready sign during Mercury-Atlas 6 pre- launch training activities.
Date	01/23/1962
NASA Center	Kennedy Space Center

Planet Mercury

Title	Planet Mercury
Full Description	Mariner 10's first image of Mercury acquired on March 24, 1974. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire important measurements with other instruments. This picture was acquired from a distance of 3,340,000 miles (5,380,000 km) from the surface of Mercury. The diameter of Mercury (3,031 miles, 4,878 km) is about 1/3 that of Earth. Images of Mercury were acquired in two steps, an inbound leg (images acquired before passing into Mercury's shadow) and an outbound leg (after exiting from Mercury's shadow). More than 2300 useful images of Mercury were taken, both moderate resolution (3-20 km/pixel) color and high resolution (better than 1 km/pixel) black and white coverage.
Date	03/24/1974
NASA Center	Jet Propulsion Laboratory

On Mercury

Why are many large craters o …

6/2/09

Description	Why are many large craters on Mercury relatively smooth inside? Images from the MESSENGER spacecraft that flew by Mercury in October 2008 show previously...
Date	6/2/09

Mercury-Atlas 9

Technicians were performing …

4/10/09

Description	Technicians were performing pre-launch testing of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral when this photo was taken on May 14, 1963....
Date	4/10/09

The Road to Apollo

Even before the Space Task G …

3/30/09

Description	Even before the Space Task Group was formally organized, Langley had begun to develop the concept of the "Little Joe" test vehicle that became the workhorse of the nation's initial humans-in-space program -- Mercury. Little Joe, a solid fuel rocket, carried instrumented payloads to various altitudes and allowed engineers to check the operation of the Mercury capsule escape rocket and recovery systems. Here Langley technicians construct the Little Joe capsules in-house in Langley's shops. Credit: NASA
Date	3/30/09

John Glenn in the Mercury Procedures Trainer

John Glenn in the Mercury Pr …

Title	John Glenn in the Mercury Procedures Trainer
Full Description	John H. Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, runs through a training exercise in the Mercury Procedures Trainer at the Space Task Group, Langley Field, Virginia. This Link-type spacecraft simulator allowed the astronaut the practice of both normal and emergency modes of systems operations.
Date	1960
NASA Center	Langley Research Center

Planet Mercury

title	Planet Mercury
date	03.24.1974
description	Mariner 10's first image of Mercury acquired on March 24, 1974. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire important measurements with other instruments. This picture was acquired from a distance of 3,340,000 miles (5,380,000 km) from the surface of Mercury. The diameter of Mercury (3,031 miles, 4,878 km) is about 1/3 that of Earth. Images of Mercury were acquired in two steps, an inbound leg (images acquired before passing into Mercury's shadow) and an outbound leg (after exiting from Mercury's shadow). More than 2300 useful images of Mercury were taken, both moderate resolution (3-20 km/pixel) color and high resolution (better than 1 km/pixel) black and white coverage. Image Credit: NASA

Mercury Transit from TRACE (White Light)

Mercury Transit from TRACE ( …

Title	Mercury Transit from TRACE (White Light)
Abstract	This is a view of the planet Mercury (a black dot) as seen by TRACE through its white light optical telescope. Because the TRACE field-of-view is much smaller than the solar disk, the spacecraft is repointed three times during the transit (creating the position jumps of the movie). This movie was generated from telemetry which has undergone a minimum of processing (to deliver quickly for the media) so data dropouts and other quick-processing artifacts may be visible. Special thanks to Dawn Myers of the TRACE project for this effort.
Completed	2006-11-14

Mercury-Atlas Test Launch

Title	Mercury-Atlas Test Launch
Full Description	A NASA Project Mercury spacecraft was test launched at 11:15 AM EST on April 25, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in a test designed to qualify the Mercury Spacecraft and all systems, which must function during orbit and reentry from orbit. The Mercury-Atlas vehicle was destroyed by Range Safety Officer about 40 seconds after liftoff. The spacecraft was recovered and appeared to be in good condition. Atlas was designed to launch payloads into low Earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. NASA first launched Atlas as a space launch vehicle in 1958. Project SCORE, the first communications satellite that transmitted President Eisenhower's pre-recorded Christmas speech around the world, was launched on an Atlas. For all three robotic lunar exploration programs, Atlas was used. Atlas/ Centaur vehicles launched both Mariner and Pioneer planetary probes. The current operational Atlas II family has a 100% mission success rating. For more information about Atlas, please see Chapter 2 in Roger Launius and Dennis Jenkins' book To Reach the High Frontier published by The University Press of Kentucky in 2002.
Date	04/25/1961
NASA Center	Kennedy Space Center

Mercury Redstone 3 Prelaunch …

Title	Mercury Redstone 3 Prelaunch Activities
Full Description	Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) Prelaunch Activities on the Mercury 5 launch pad.
Date	4/21/1961
NASA Center	Kennedy Space Center

Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the …

Title	Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the Launch Pad
Full Description	Pre-launch test of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Date	5/14/1963
NASA Center	Kennedy Space Center

Project Mercury - Capsule #2

Title	Project Mercury - Capsule #2
Full Description	Project Mercury - Capsule #2. Capsule complete in Lewis Hangar near Cleveland, Ohio. Lewis is now known as the Glenn Research Center.
Date	08/03/1959
NASA Center	Glenn Research Center

On Mercury

Why are many large craters o …

6/2/09

Description	Why are many large craters on Mercury relatively smooth inside? Images from the MESSENGER spacecraft that flew by Mercury in October 2008 show previously...
Date	6/2/09

Mariner 10

On Nov. 3, 1973, the Mariner …

10/2/09

Description	On Nov. 3, 1973, the Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973 spacecraft, also known as Mariner 10, was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, becoming the first spacecraft designed to use gravity assist. Three months after launch it flew by Venus, changed speed and trajectory, then crossed Mercury's orbit in March 1974. This photo identifies the spacecraft's science instruments, which were used to study the atmospheric, surface and physical characteristics of Venus and Mercury. This was the sixth in the series of Mariner spacecraft that explored the inner planets beginning in 1962. Image Credit: NASA/JPL
Date	10/2/09

Mercury-Atlas 9

Technicians were performing …

4/10/09

Description	Technicians were performing pre-launch testing of the Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA9) on Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral when this photo was taken on May 14, 1963. A day later on May 15, Gordon Cooper successfully piloted this his 'Faith 7' spacecraft for more than 34 hours and 22 orbits. Cooper's flight stretched the capabilities of the Mercury capsule to the limits. His 34-hour flight lasted more than three times the longest U.S. human space flight until that time, and far exceeded the initial design capability of the capsule. Image Credit: NASA
Date	4/10/09

Mercury Astronaut Gordon Coo …

Title	Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Jr.
Full Description	Mercury Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., in his pressure suit with helmet during Mercury-Atlas 9 prelaunch activities.
Date	02/25/1963
NASA Center	Johnson Space Center

Mercury Astronaut Wally Schi …

Title	Mercury Astronaut Wally Schirra
Full Description	Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. in Mercury pressure suit with model of Mercury capsule behind him.
Date	10/01/1962
NASA Center	Johnson Space Center

Mercury On Deck

Title	Mercury On Deck
Full Description	The crew of the U.S.S. Kearsarge spell out the words "Mercury 9" on the ship's flight deck while on the way to the recovery area where astronaut Gordon Cooper is expected to splash down in his "Faith 7" Mercury space capsule.
Date	05/15/1963
NASA Center	Johnson Space Center

Boilerplate Mercury Capsule

Title	Boilerplate Mercury Capsule
Full Description	Looking like a scene from an H.G. Wells novel, engineers inspect and test a boilerplate Mercury space capsule. Note the array of bulky test equipment on the table and the less than clean-room conditions. Today such testing is conducted under virtually steril conditions in a completely controlled environment.
Date	01/01/1960
NASA Center	Headquarters

First Mercury-Atlas Attempte …

Title	First Mercury-Atlas Attempted Launch
Full Description	An Atlas vehicle is shown as it is raised into its launch gantry. This Atlas attempted to launch a Mercury spacecraft (without any astronauts aboard) into orbital flight. The launch vehicle developed 360,000 pounds of thrust and burned RP-1, a kerosene-like fuel, and liquid oxygen. It was about 60 feet in length and 10 feet in diameter at the tank section. This was the first attempt by NASA to put a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit. Unfortunately, this Atlas exploded at launch. Atlas was designed to launch payloads into low Earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. NASA first launched Atlas as a space launch vehicle in 1958. Project SCORE, the first communications satellite that transmitted President Eisenhower's pre-recorded Christmas speech around the world, was launched on an Atlas. For all three robotic lunar exploration programs, Atlas was used. Atlas/ Centaur vehicles launched Mariner and Pioneer planetary probes. The current operational Atlas II family has a 100% mission success rating. For more information about Atlas, please see Chapter 2 in Roger Launius and Dennis Jenkins' book To Reach the High Frontier published by The University Press of Kentucky in 2002.
Date	04/23/1961
NASA Center	Headquarters

The Road to Apollo

The Scout program began in 1 …

3/2/09

Description	The Scout program began in 1957 to build an inexpensive sounding rocket to carry small research payloads to high altitudes. Scout would eventually assist the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs by testing reentry materials, evaluating methods of protecting spacecraft from micrometeoroids, and examining ways of overcoming radio blackouts as a space capsule reentered the atmosphere. The first Scout launched at Wallops Island July 1, 1960. Credit: NASA
Date	3/2/09

The Road to Apollo

As project Mercury began in …

3/16/09

Description	As project Mercury began in the late 1950s, Langley was thrust full force into the national spotlight with the arrival in Hampton of the original seven astronauts. Under the tutelage of the Space Task Group, (from left front row) Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Donald "Deke" Slayton, Gordon Cooper, (back row) Alan Shepard, Walter Schirra and John Glenn were trained at Langley to operate the space machines that would thrust them beyond the protective environment of Earth's atmosphere. Credit: NASA
Date	3/16/09

The Road to Apollo

After Mercury came Gemini, t …

4/6/09

Description	After Mercury came Gemini, the project that would put to the test the maneuvers that would be required if Apollo was to be successful. Gemini astronauts would have to practice the rendezvous and docking techniques necessary to link two spacecraft. Langley researchers built the Rendezvous Docking Simulator giving astronauts a routine opportunity to pilot dynamically-controlled scale-model vehicles in an environment that closely paralleled that of space. Credit: NASA
Date	4/6/09

Mercury Mission Control Seat …

1-Instructor's console 2-Rec …

10/30/08

Description	1-Instructor's console 2-Recovery commander (USN) 3-Operations director 4-Network commander (USAF) 5-Recovery status monitor 6-Range safety observer 7-Flight director 8-Network status monitor 9-Missile telemetry monitor 10-Strip chart recorder 11-Support control coordinator 12-Flight surgeon 13-Spacecraft environment monitor 14-Spacecraft communicator 15-Spacecraft system monitor 16-Retrofire controller 17-Flight dynamics officer 18-TV monitors 19-X-Y recorders 20-Trend charts 21-Operations summary display and alphanumeric indicators 22-Signal distribution panel 23-Teletype printers 24-Data entry console Image Credit: NASA
Date	10/30/08

Brahms Crater

title	Brahms Crater
date	03.30.1974
description	Thirty years ago, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft made the first of three passes by Mercury, sending back intriguing images of the planet's battered terrain. NASA will launch the world's second probe to Mercury - named MESSENGER - this summer.This image of the crater was taken on the first flyby. Note the central peak. North is up. (Mariner 10, Atlas of Mercury, Fig. 3-2) This crater (98 km diameter) illustrates the narrow hummocky rim facies, radial ridges, and surrounding extensive field of secondary craters. The well-developed interior terraces and central peaks are typical for mercurian craters in this size range. Note that the smaller craters in the foreground (25-km diameter) also are terraced. This image(FDS 80)was taken during the spacecraft's first encounter with Mercury. The Mariner 10 mission, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science, explored Venus in February 1974 on the way to three encounters with Mercury-in March and September 1974 and in March 1975. The spacecraft took more than 7,000 photos of Mercury, Venus, the Earth and the Moon. Image Credi: NASA

Planet Mercury

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Sol (our sun)

Imaging Science Subsystem - …

Title	Planet Mercury
Original Caption Released with Image	Mariner 10's first image of Mercury acquired on March 24, 1974. During its flight, Mariner 10's trajectory brought it behind the lighted hemisphere of Mercury, where this image was taken, in order to acquire important measurements with other instruments. This picture was acquired from a distance of 3,340,000 miles (5,380,000 km) from the surface of Mercury. The diameter of Mercury (3,031 miles, 4,878 km) is about 1/3 that of Earth. Images of Mercury were acquired in two steps, an inbound leg (images acquired before passing into Mercury's shadow) and an outbound leg (after exiting from Mercury's shadow). More than 2300 useful images of Mercury were taken, both moderate resolution (3-20 km/pixel) color and high resolution (better than 1 km/pixel) black and white coverage.

Mecury Spacecraft Boilerplat …

Title	Mecury Spacecraft Boilerplate
Full Description	Boilerplate Mercury spacecraft being manufactured "in-house" by Langley technicians. The capsules were designed to test spacecraft recovery systems. The escape tower and rocket motors shown on the completed capsule would be removed before shipping and finally assembly for launching at Wallops Island. Design of the Little Joe capsules began at Langley before McDonnell started on the design of the Mercury capsule.
Date	07/30/1944
NASA Center	Langley Research Center

Mercury 8 in Hanger

Title	Mercury 8 in Hanger
Full Description	Personnel in Hangar S at Cape Canaveral, Florida prepare Wally Schirra's Mercury 8 capsule nicknamed "Sigma 7" for delivery to the launch pad to be mated to the Atlas launch vehicle.
Date	09/10/1962
NASA Center	Johnson Space Center

Mercury Capsule Model in Spi …

Title	Mercury Capsule Model in Spin Tunnel
Full Description	Mercury Capsule model in Spin Tunnel.
Date	9/11/1959
NASA Center	Langley Research Center

Mercury Space Capsule

Title	Mercury Space Capsule
Full Description	The Mercury space capsule undergoing tests in Full Scale Wind Tunnel, January 1959.
Date	01/22/1959
NASA Center	Langley Research Center

Astronaut John Glenn Undergoes Simulated Orbital Flight Training

Astronaut John Glenn Undergo …

Title	Astronaut John Glenn Undergoes Simulated Orbital Flight Training
Full Description	Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., undergoes a simulated orbital flight as part of his training for Project Mercury in the Manned Spacecraft Center's procedure trainer at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
Date	11/29/1961
NASA Center	Kennedy Space Center

Carpenter in White Room

Title	Carpenter in White Room
Full Description	Inside Hangar S at the White Room Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, Mercury astronaut M. Scott Carpenter examines the honeycomb protective material on the main pressure bulkhead (heat shield) of his Mercury capsule nicknamed "Aurora 7.
Date	03/06/1962
NASA Center	Johnson Space Center

Project Mercury Retro and Posigrade Package

Project Mercury Retro and Po …

Title	Project Mercury Retro and Posigrade Package
Full Description	The Retro and Posigrade Package for the Mercury spacecraft. This was used to de-orbit the spacecraft at the end of mission.
Date	09/16/1960
NASA Center	Glenn Research Center

Cooper

Title	Cooper
Full Description	Launch of Mercury Atlas 9 rocket with astronaut Gordon Cooper onboard from Launch Pad 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Date	5/15/1963
NASA Center	Kennedy Space Center

Shepard on Deck of Champlain after Recovery

Shepard on Deck of Champlain …

Title	Shepard on Deck of Champlain after Recovery
Full Description	Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is seen on the deck of the U.S.S. Lake Champlain after the recovery of his Freedom 7 Mercury space capsule.
Date	05/05/1961
NASA Center	Johnson Space Center

Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury

Technicians working in the M …

Title	Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury
Full Description	Technicians working in the McDonnell White Room on the Mercury spacecraft.
Date	1960
NASA Center	Headquarters

Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper

Name of Image	Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper
Date of Image	1959-04-27
Full Description	Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. The MA-9 mission, boosted by the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle, was the last flight of the Mercury Project. The Faith 7 spacecraft orbited the Earth 22 times in 1-1/2 days.

General Description	S62-00961 (1962) --- Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., suited in full Mercury suit, prepares for launch of the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6) ?Friendship 7? spacecraft. This marks America's first manned Earth-orbiting space flight.

The 2003 Mercury Transit

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The 2003 Mercury Transit

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