Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Audio Recordings. 1942 - 1999. PROJECT MERCURY, ORBITAL FLIGHT
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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 ...
Glenn, John, 1921-2016
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (b. July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Guernsey County-d. December 8, 2016, Columbus, Ohio), astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio. He attended public schools of New Concord, Ohio, and later graduated from Muskingum College. Glenn served in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1965, and was later a test pilot and joining the United States space program in 1959. He was selected as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. In February 1962, Glenn became the first American...
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...
Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-
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Government official and businessman. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to Mattie U. Russell, 1976 Sept. 22. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 26997249 James Edwin Webb (1906-1992), lawyer and government official, was the Director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1946 to 1949, Under Secretary of State from 1949 to 1952, and Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1961 to 1968. From the description of We...
