#project mercury

[humanoidhistory]

The Right Stuff, 1983. Poster art by Tom Jung.

[lonestarflight]

Artwork of the RF signal blackout on tracking and communication while the Mercury capsule re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

Remastered from "The Space World Magazine" July 1962 by Dan Beaumont.

Posted on flickr by Dan Beaumont Space Museum: link

[seasidecorby]

@thewatchersmurder and I’s au that I think about a normal amount

[commodorez]

Mercury-Redstone 4 / Liberty Bell 7

Astronaut Gus Grissom

Launched: July 21, 1961 - 12:20:36 UTC Landed: July 21, 1961 - 12:36:13 UTC Recovered from the ocean floor: July 20, 1999

Kansas Cosmosphere Hutchinson, Kansas

[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]

The final flight of the Mercury program, Mercury-Atlas 9, launched on this day in history in 1963. Carrying L. Gordon "Gordo" Cooper aboard the spacecraft Faith 7, the flight was a 34-hour marathon test of the endurance of both man and spacecraft.

[todayspace]

Image description: a photo of a large sign showing black and white photos of four black women, two of whom are in front of 1960s era computers, all smiling at the camera. Small text beneath their photos reads: "Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson are four of the real life mathematicians and engineers featured in the movie and book Hidden Figures. They lived here in Hampton and worked at NASA Langley Research Center in the days before sophisticated computers. These "human computers" did the math that made space flight possible."

A Mercury capsule can be seen on the right sign of the sign.

[apollomission8]

Astronaut Text Post Memes – Mercury Seven & New Nine edition