MERCURY SPACE CAPSULE
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Faget, Maxime A. (Maxime Allan), 1921-2004
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Faget was Assistant Director for Engineering and Development. From the description of Estimated Size of Ranger 6 Impact Crater and Recommendations for Subsequent Ranger Flight Missions : memo to Willis B. Foster, NASA, 1964 Mar 13. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733095729 ...
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...
