Training for the Flight
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Project Mercury (U.S.)
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...
White, Stanley C., 1926-2011
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Dr. Stanley C. White was born January 13, 1926 in Lebanon, Ohio. He obtained his M.D. in 1949 at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He received his Master of Public Health (MPH) in 1953 at John Hopkins University School of Public Health & Hygiene. He received his Board Certification in Aerospace Medicine from the American Board of Preventive Medicine in 1956. He was a Colonel in the United States Air Force where he spent most of his career working in t...
