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Astronauts of the Mercury program

Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Virgil Grissom
John H. Glenn. Jr.
Scott Carpenter
Walter Mr. Schirra, Jr.
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Donald K. “Deke” Slayton

Capsule

The Mercury capsule was designed by Maxime Faget and NASA 'S Space Task Group. It is particularly small, with only 1,7 m {{exp|3}} of space for the single one occupying. Inside 55 electric switches, 35 mechanical levers and 30 fuses are, which makes a total of 120 controls.

Missions

Missions Mercury-Atlas

Mercury-Atlas 1 (July 29th 1960) - first flight of a Mercury vessel with a launcher Atlas
Mercury-Atlas 2 (February 21st 1961) - test of the Mercury vessel and launcher Atlas
Mercury-Atlas 3 (April 25th 1961) - test of the Mercury vessel and launcher Atlas
Mercury-Atlas 4 (September 13rd 1961) - test of the Mercury vessel and launcher Atlas
Mercury-Atlas 5 (November 29th 1961) - this mission with carried the Enos chimpanzee for two orbits around the Earth
Mercury-Atlas 6 (February 20th 1962) - mission commonly called Mercury 6 (see hereafter)
Mercury-Atlas 7 (May 24th 1962) - mission commonly called Mercury 7 (see hereafter)
Mercury-Atlas 8 (October 3rd 1962) - mission commonly called Mercury 8 (see hereafter)
Mercury-Atlas 9 (May 15th 1963) - mission commonly called Mercury 9 (see hereafter)

Mercury-Redstone missions

Mercury-Redstone 1 (November 21st 1960) - failure of the mission: the launcher did not take off
Mercury-Redstone 1A (December 19th 1960) - first flight of a Mercury vessel with a launcher Redstone
Mercury-Redstone 2 (January 31st 1961) - this mission with carried Ham the chimpanzee in suborbital flight
Mercury-Redstone data base (March 24th 1961) - test of the launcher Redstone
Mercury-Redstone 3 (May 5th 1961) - mission commonly called Mercury 3 (see hereafter)
Mercury-Redstone 4 (July 21st 1961) - mission commonly called Mercury 4 (see hereafter)

Live missions

Mercury 3

May 5th 1961
Official name of the mission: Mercury-Redstone 3
Astronaut: Alan Shepard
Name of the capsule: Standard Freedom 7
of launcher: rocket Redstone
Lasted of the flight: 15 minutes and 28 seconds
Many orbits: 0
maximum Altitude: 186 kilometers (suborbital flight)
Alan Shepard is first American in space

Mercury 4

July 21st 1961
Official name of the mission: Mercury-Redstone 4
Astronaut: Virgil “Gus” Grissom
Name of the capsule: Beautiful Liberty 7
Standard of launcher: rocket Redstone
Lasted of the flight: 15 minutes and 37 seconds
Many orbits: 0
maximum Altitude: 190,3 kilometers (suborbital flight)
Note: at the time of the sea landing, the trap door of evacuation inopportunely opened, water invaded the capsule and this one sank. The astronaut Virgil Grissom was saved of accuracy by hélitreuillage. The precise cause of the incident forever be really given: the engineers think that the astronaut panicked, whereas it always supported that the trap door had opened spontaneously.

Mercury 6

February 20th 1962
Official name of the mission: Mercury-atlases 6
Astronaut: John Glenn
Name of the capsule: Standard Friendship 7
of launcher: rocket Atlas
Lasted of the flight: 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds
Nombre of orbits: 3
John Glenn is first American to make it tower of the Earth in orbit

Mercury 7

May 24th 1962
Official name of the mission: Mercury-atlases 7
Astronaut: Scott Carpenter
Name of the capsule: Standard Aurora 7
of launcher: rocket Atlas
Lasted of the flight: 4 hours, 56 minutes and 5 seconds
Many orbits: 3

Mercury 8

October 3rd 1962
Official name of the mission: Mercury-atlases 8
Astronaut: Wally Schirra
Name of the capsule: Standard sigma 7
of launcher: rocket Atlas
Lasted of the flight: 9 hours, 13 minutes and 11 seconds
Many orbits: 6

Mercury 9

May 15th 1963
Official name of the mission: Mercury-atlases 9
Astronaut: Gordon Cooper
Name of the capsule: Standard Faith 7
of launcher: rocket Atlas
Lasted of the flight: 34 hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds
Many orbits: 22
the objectives of this mission were to evaluate one day the physiological effects in space

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