Papers, 1945-1993. Series I.

Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection (Chester Fritz Library)

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Disher, John H.

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John Howard Disher was born in Olmstead, North Dakota on December 23, 1921. He earned a B.S. of science in mechanical engineering from the University of North Dakota in 1943. Disher joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA, a predecessor of NASA. In 1951, Disher was named head of Free Flight Research Section. NASA appointed Disher Project Engineer of the task group formed to oversee the Mercury Program. In 1960 he was named Head of Advanced Manned Missions and became Assis...

United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

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Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)

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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...