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  1. 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 the start of human …

  2. 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 the Moon. …

  3. What was the Gemini Program? - National Air and Space Museum

    Sep 22, 2022 · What Was The Gemini Program? If you have read the book The Right Stuff or watched the movie with the same name, you may know a thing or two about the Mercury program —which …

  4. Alan Shepard: First American in Space - National Air and Space Museum

    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 flight.

  5. 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 into doing the …

  6. Light This Candle: What You Need to Know About Alan Shepard's …

    Apr 30, 2021 · Shepard’s mission was part of Project Mercury, NASA’s first human spaceflight program, and Shepard was part of a group of astronauts called the Mercury Seven. NASA introduced the …

  7. Apollo program - National Air and Space Museum

    Dec 9, 2022 · Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis Explore other subtopics Spacecraft Human spaceflight Space Shuttle program Space stations Gemini program Apollo program Mercury program …

  8. 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 by NASA in …

  9. Enos: The Forgotten Chimp - National Air and Space Museum

    Nov 29, 2021 · He flew on NASA’s Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) mission, which the relatively new space agency deemed necessary before orbiting an astronaut in a Mercury capsule. But Enos is little …

  10. Mercury Capsule - National Air and Space Museum

    On September 9, 1959, NASA launched this unoccupied Mercury spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a suborbital flight that lasted 13 minutes. Its launch was the second in the Mercury …