Max Fag.et.... wow what a name
The Astronaut that lost his space capsule was Gus Grissom. His capsule was the Liberty Bell 7, Part of NASA's Mercury project.
Messenger was a mission of the space program to reach Mercury. It took 3 years and 4 months to reach the destination.
The space above the mercury is airtight, there is no air above the mercury
The purpose of the Mercury program was to send man into space for the first time, orbit around the Earth, find out how a person functioned in space, and to recover the astronaut and spacecraft safely.
The Mariner10 space probe and the Mercury Messenger space probe.
The Mercury capsule went to space in 1961. Although the Soviets had put a person in space first, Alan Shepard was the first American to fly the Mercury capsule in space.
It was called the Mercury capsule.
Project Mercury was the first stage in this program.
The Astronaut that lost his space capsule was Gus Grissom. His capsule was the Liberty Bell 7, Part of NASA's Mercury project.
He took a ride in a Mercury capsule.
There was a Mercury Program in the US in the early 1960's, it was the program that put the first American astronaut into space. They were called "capsules", a one man space ship that was boosted into space by a rocket, they had very little maneuverability. The program was followed by Gemini, which had 2 men in each capsule, then Apollo, where 3 men were in each capsule. Apollo was the program where the first human landed on the moon.
Mercury carried one Astronaut, Gemini carried two, and Apollo three
The Gemini capsules were designed to hold 2 Astronauts, and each mission carried 2.
Alan Shepard was the first person to go into space using a Mercury Capsule. His flight was sub-orbital, lasting about 15 minutes.
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Among the famous exhibits at the National Air and Space Museum are a Wright Flier (designed by the Wright Brothers), a Mercury and an Apollo space Capsule, and a rock brought back from the Moon.
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