Post-Launch (Includes Post-Launch Memoradum Reports)

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Post-Launch (Includes Post-Launch Memoradum Reports)

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The Post Launch reports and memoradums include information on the permission activities, countdown, recommendations for the Mercury Control Center and Network, schedules, a procedures log, summaries, a chronological description of the flight from lift-off to landing, the flight evaluation, recovery, calibrations, landing, and trip reports. Also included are reports from the Flight Dynamics Officer, the Flight Surgeon, the Retrofire Controller, the Capsule Environment Monitor, the Aerospace Technologist, and the Network Status Monitor. There is a copy of a Senate Hearing on Aeronautical and Space Sciences.

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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...