Project mercury

On April 9th 1959, America’s first seven astronauts were introduced to the public. They were Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr, John H. Glenn Jr, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter S…

A Who's Who of '60s pop culture: Marilyn, Sinatra, Brando, the Beatles, Liz Taylor, Elvis, Brigitte Bardot, Natalie Wood and more.

Amid a backdrop for the effort to put a human in space was the Cold War. The Soviet Union also was working to put the first human in space, and they did on

The Mercury 7.

WIKIPEDIA INFO: Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2) was an American space mission, launched at 16:55 UTC on January 31, 1961 from LC-5 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mercury spacecraft No. 5 carried Ham the Chimp on a suborbital flight, landing in the Atlantic Ocean 16 minutes, 39 seconds after launch.

I am at a loss? Why don't manufacturers sell "plugged" booster motors? .... and why does NAR having an issue with us "plugging" a booster motor in...

In 1979, Tom Wolfe published The Right Stuff, a thrilling and personal account of the Mercury Seven – the Project Mercury Astronauts; the first seven Americans chosen to go into space. There are libraries of more detailed books on the subject, but none capture the spirit of the program and the times better than Wolfe’s masterpiece.