Public Information Operating Plan, Project Mercury MA-6

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Public Information Operating Plan, Project Mercury MA-6

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This public information operating plan was conducted by Paul Haney, Project Information Manager. NASA personnel had to familiarize themselves with this plan in order to maintain accurate information being given to the media.

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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...