Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations. 1900 - 2003. Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities. 1947 - 1984. MERCURY-ATLAS 130D ROLLOUT
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Cooper, Gordon, 1927-2004
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Gordon Cooper (b. March 6, 1927-d. Oct. 4, 2004) was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He was selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959, and on May 15-16, 1963, he piloted the "Faith 7" spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission which concluded the operational phase of Project Mercury. He later served as command pilot of the 8-day 120-revolution Gemini 5 mission which began on August 21, 1965. It was on this flight that he and pilot Charles Conrad established a new space endurance record by traveling a dista...
Scott H. Simpkinson
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Scott H. Simpkinson was born on August 24, 1919 in Piqua, Ohio. Simpkinson graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1943 and was subsequently employed by NASA and its predecessor the National Civilian Advisory Commission (NACA) as an engineer from the 1950s until his retirement in the early 1980s. During this time, Simpkinson worked at various NASA sites, such as the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, the Manned Spacecraft Center (...
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...
