Memoradum for Flight Director--Report on Test 5460--Flight Dynamics Officer

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Memoradum for Flight Director--Report on Test 5460--Flight Dynamics Officer

This is a report on test 5460, from the Flight Dynamics Officer for the Mercury-Atlas 6 flight, Tecwyn Roberts. There are three tables attached.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11615490

National Archives at Fort Worth

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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...