From history to the Project Mercury spacecraft. [1940]-1962.

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From history to the Project Mercury spacecraft. [1940]-1962.

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This box contains: The undated printer's plate and bookplates for the C.G. Buckingham history book collection. A 1962 scrapbook kept on the Project Mercury spacecraft exhibit at the library on May 11-May 20, 1962. 14,825 people saw the exhibit, while several hundred others had to be turned away.

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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...