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Photo Gallery - Mercury
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Media Gallery for Mercury
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Short Description
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Mercury Proposals
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Before Mercury, the US Air Force had a project 'Man in Space Soonest'. This chart summarizes the initial contractor proposals.
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Mercury Proposals
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Mercury Gemini
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Comparison of the Mercury and Gemini capsules.
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Mercury Gemini
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Mercury
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Mercury
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Pigs In Space
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Pigs In Space - NASA used pigs to test human survivability in case of a land 'splashdown' by using pigs - they showed no apparent ill effects - truly 'Spam in a Can'.
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Credit:
NASA
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Pigs In Space
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Contact us with any corrections, additions, or comments.
Conditions for use of drawings, pictures, or other materials from this site..
To contact astronauts or cosmonauts.
© Mark Wade, 1997 - 2007 except where otherwise noted.
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