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... Engineering for a while and I was on the Mercury Atlas part of it. We were divided into two sections, Mercury Atlas and Mercury Redstone. I ended up going to St. Louis Missouri for a couple of summers on Project Orbit, which was taking the Mercury capsule, as they called ... something happening where we had a failure, the time like the tower went off the Mercury Redstone. You know, "God, guys, how many different back-door situations are going to happen to ...

... the Apollo Program Office who were inexperienced in manned spaceflight, we had everybody working on Mercury and Gemini, the President John F. Kennedy said we're going to the Moon, and ... big difference between going from Alan B. Shepard Jr. , which was a 15-minute flight Mercury-Redstone 3 , to leaving Earth's gravity and landing on the Moon. The magnitude difference there ... . But they were running too fast. As a result, those of us that were doing Mercury and then Gemini, both in Operations and Engineering, had a hard time getting these people ...

... Redstone rockets. On 31 Jan. 1958, a modified Redstone renamed Jupiter-C launched into orbit the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1 . Another modification of the Redstone tested on the stand was the Mercury-Redstone ... had become much more sophisticated. Painted in its original colors and designs, and with a Redstone borrowed from the Army Missile Command installed on it, the site would appear much as ...

... the modified Redstone known as the Jupiter-C with upper stage that launched the U.S.'s first successful artificial satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958; in 1961, another modified Redstone, the Mercury Redstone 3 ... J-2 engines of the Saturn V, also shows they all descended from the same Redstone engine. ref 12 The first artificial satellite, '' Sputnik 1 '', launched on 4 October 1957 that ...

... Freedom 7 , manned Mercury spacecraft (No. 7) carrying Astronaut Alan B. Shepard , Jr., as pilot, was launched from Cape Canaveral by Mercury-Redstone ( MR-3 ) launch vehicle, to an altitude of 115.696 ... . File:61-05-05_Freedom_7_Onboard.wav.mp4 Media:MR03_TEC.PDF Mercury Redstone 3 Post Launch Report and Transcript Jun 16 1961 Saturn static firing of 44.17 ...

... Mercury. Republic of China announced plans to initiate a rocket research program. Alan B. Shepard Jr is debriefed after his suborbital flight aboard Mercury Redstone 3 . Read the debrief here. Media:MR03.pdf Mercury Redstone ...

... Project Mercury , America's first manned space flight program, was orchestrated by NASA's Space Task Group and included suborbital and then orbital flights using the Redstone and Atlas boosters. The period ... NASA Mission Reports gathers together in one place the rare documents and drawings of the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission - the flight of Freedom 7. Presented herein are transcripts and documents from the ...

... of the boilerplate systems. The idea was to drop from C-130s, into water, boilerplate Mercury spacecraft, determine the stability characteristics on the parachute, determine how they entered the water, and ... in the office the next morning, back from that Ham mission. Was it MR-2 Mercury-Redstone 2 , I believe? I forget. I think it was MR-2. And saying, “We've ... have anymore. Kirk? '''Freeman:''' There is one question, sir. During the recovery process of the Mercury capsule, there was a debate between the resin shield for the heat shield— '''Armitage:''' Beryllium ...

... was not much involvement for the aerodynamics people on Gemini because the configuration basically was Mercury, just bigger. Bigger scale didn’t make that much difference. So aerodynamicswise, configurationwise, didn’t ... come in purely ballistically where they have no control over where they fly. So the Mercury Redstone reentry gets up 12, 13 Gs on entry. It’s a rough ride. It’s ... is when I went back to the aerodynamics branch. Interesting. Back to Mercury. We did some flying of the Mercury abort configuration out of Wallops Island. We did Ham, the chimpanzee , was ...

... Virgil I. Grissom is debriefed about his flight aboard Mercury Redstone 4 . Media:MR04A.pdf Mercury Redstone 4 Pilot debriefing NASA site selection team headed by John F. Parsons, Associate Director of ...

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