Fact Sheets and Press Releases for Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6)

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Fact Sheets and Press Releases for Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6)

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Fact sheets and press releases for the Mercury Atlas 6 (MA-6). Among the press releases and fact sheets, there is a copy of the transcript for "The Day of the Flight," by Walter C. Williams (Associate Director for Operations, NASA) and the 12 part article, "First U.S. Man in Orbit."

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National Archives at Fort Worth

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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...