#mercury program

[orbitalarchives]

Launch of Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2), an uncrewed suborbital test, 21 February 1961.

NASA

[lonestarflight]

Flight Readiness Firing (FRF) Test on Mercury-Atlas 4 at Launch Complex 14

Date: December 9, 1960

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[rectanglejanett]

Organized my astronauts shelf

(I covered Gordo Cooper with a book on purpose)

[howellfotography]

Reentry

62 years ago today on May 15, 1963, astronaut Gordon Cooper lifted off in the Faith 7 capsule on the final mission of the Mercury program, Mercury-Atlas 9. Faith 7 now hangs in a gallery at Space Center Houston, where I shot this photo. The effect was achieved by zooming while shooting at a slow shutter speed, handheld, Nikon D90, 18-200.

[gemini-enthusiast]

Earth's horizon, MR-3/Freedom 7.

[edwhiteandblue]

November 29, 1961: Enos the space chimp orbits the Earth twice onboard Mercury-Atlas 5 | 📸 NASA

[apollomission8]

If there's one thing these two love doing, it's starting phone calls to each other with the most ridiculous sentence they can think of

[tompoose]

ksp screenshot dump (modded)