Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...
Sixty-four years ago today, a brave American sat in the cockpit of the Mercury rocket, ready to face the unknown. After years of scientific advancement and growing competition in space exploration, ...
Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...
The mini-satellite, named 3UCubed, was built over 5 years by students at Sonoma State, Howard and the University of New Hampshire. It will monitor how the solar wind interacts with the upper ...
From the first Mercury missions to today’s commercial crew flights, the United States has repeatedly turned to Florida’s ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a Project Mercury retro ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a model of unknown scale of ...