NASA Project Mercury
Document Collection on DVD

This collection of 133 documents represents a comprehensive collection of 1000's of pages of material describing the the Mercury space missions in great detail. It includes everything from flight manuals to news releases to technical documents on the various spacecraft and instruments.

Here are all the documents on this DVD.

1. This New Ocean. A History of Project Mercury
2. Chronology of Project Mercury
3. Invitation to Apply as Research-Astronaut-Candidate
4. Sample Questions from Project Mercury Tests
5. Press Conference of Mercury Astronaut Team
6. Project Mercury: A Description of the Astronaut’s Task
7. Pressure Suits for Project Mercury Astronauts News Release
8. PROJECT MERCURY MONTHLY PROGRESS REPORT NO. 11, 1-30 JUN. 1960
9. Project Mercury Status Report January 1, 1961
10. Project Mercury Status Report October 31, 1961
11. Project Mercury Status Report April 30, 1962
12. Project Mercury Status Report July 31, 1963
13. Alternate Source
14. NASA Factsheet NASA Langley's Role in Project Mercury FS-1996-04-29-LaRCM
15. Design study of a meteoroid experiment using an unmanned Mercury spacecraft
16. Comparison of Free-Flight Measurements of Stability of the Gemini and Mercury Entry Capsules at Mach numbers 3 and 9.5
17. Space Medicine in Project Mercury
18. Effects of weightlessness on man during U. S. suborbital and orbital flights
19. REVIEW OF LESSONS LEARNED IN THE MERCURY PROGRAM RELATIVE TO SPACECRAFT DESIGN AND OPERATIONS
20. Gemini: Mercury Experience Applied
21. Data Handling Techniques in Project Mercury
22. PROJECT MERCURY- REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS OF THE MERCURY GROUND NETWORK DURING THE MNTV-1 NETWORK EXERCISES OF JULY 25-31, 1961
23. PROJECT MERCURY - REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS OF THE MERCURY GROUND RANGE DURING MERCURY-ATLAS /MA-4/ MISSION, SEPTEMBER 11-13, 1961
24. SWITCH UNIT MERCURY CONTROL CENTER
25. Physiological Sensors for Use in Project Mercury
26. Deduction of reentry plasma properties about manned orbital spacecraft from radio signal attenuation data
27. Reliability Model and Analysis for Project Mercury 3-Orbit Manned and Unmanned Mission
28. PROJECT MERCURY- REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS OF THE MERCURY GROUND NETWORK DURING THE MNTV-1 NETWORK EXERCISES OF JULY 25-31, 1961
29. Results of the Project Mercury Ballistic and Orbital Chimpanzee Flights
30. Project Mercury. External System Programs
31. Effects of Weightlessness on Man during U. S. Suborbital and Orbital Flights
32. Physiological Sensors for use in Project Mercury
33. IN-FLIGHT NOISE MEASUREMENTS FOR THREE PROJECT MERCURY VEHICLES. MERCURY VEHICLES
34. C-BAND RADAR-BEACON TRACKING FOR PROJECT MERCURY
35. PREDICTION OF MAN'S VISION IN AND FROM THE MERCURY CAPSULE
36. Acquisition System, White Sands, New Mexico. Operation and Maintenance
37. Acquisition System, Eglin, Florida. Operation and Maintenance
38. Bermuda Moniter Programs
39. Program System Operation
40. Postflight reporter program
41. Acquisition System Atlantic Ship, Indian Ocean Ship. Operation and Maintenance
42. Goddard Monitor Programs
43. Acquisition System Point Arguello. Operation and Maintenance
44. Launch Monitor Subsystem
45. Program System Standards
46. Scientific Objectives for Mercury Missions Digest Report
47. Manned Satellite Projects Ground Communication Reliability Report for Project Mercury
48. Project Mercury Familiarization Manual Nov 1, 1961
49. Mercury Familiarization Manual May 1962
50. Mercury Familiarization Manual Dec 20 1962
51. Mercury Maintenance Manual 1959
52. Mercury Life Support Systems
53. In-flight Noise in Project Mercury Vehicles
54. Technical History of the Environmental Control System for Project Mercury
55. The Development and Qualification Testing of a Lightweight Net Couch and Restraint System for use in the Mercury spacecraft
56. HEAT-SHIELD PERFORMANCE DURING ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY OF PROJECT MERCURY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT VEHICLE
57. Pressure and Heat-Transfer Measurements on a Mercury Capsule Model
58. In-Flight Noise in Project Mercury Vehicles
59. Transonic Dynamic Stability Characteristics of Several Models of Project Mercury Capsule Configurations
60. Measurements of the surface flows, heat transfer, pressure distribution, and longitudinal stability of a Mercury capsule model at Mach numbers of 6.9 and 9.6
61. Noise Considerations for Manned Reentry Vehicles
62. WIND-TUNNEL INVESTIGATION AT MACH NUMBERS FROM 3.0 TO 6.8 OF THE STATIC AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MODIFIED MERCURY EXIT AND ESCAPE CAPSULE CONFIGURATIONS
63. Mercury Manned Orbital Capsule Detail Specification Aug 1960
64. Mercury capsule at subsonic speed with and without drogue parachute - dynamic model tests
65. PREDICTION OF MAN'S VISION IN AND FROM THE MERCURY CAPSULE
66. Capsule Communications System. Operation and Maintenance Vol 1
67. Capsule Communications System. Operation and Maintenance Vol 2
68. Entry Performance of the Mercury Spacecraft Heat Shield
69. Project Mercury Preliminary Flight Test Results of the Big Joe, Mercury R and D Capsule
70. Performance characteristics of the Little Joe launch vehicle
71. Mercury capsule no. 14, configuration specification (Mercury-Little Joe No. 5(A)
72. Full-scale flight test from sea level of abort- escape system for manned Mercury capsule
73. Flight test of a Little Joe boosted full- scale spacecraft model and escape system for Project Mercury
74. The Mercury-Redstone Project
75. Mercury Atlas Test Objective
76. Mercury Atlas Booster Reliability Workshop July 12, 1963
77. Pilot Safety Program for Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle
78. Progress report Atlas Booster program for NASA Project Mercury, 1-31 August 1961
79. Mercury Capsule Number 2 Configuration Specification (Mercury-Redstone no. 1)
80. Actual trajectory of Mercury-Redstone flight test MR-2
81. Preliminary evaluation of Mercury-Redstone launch MR-BD
82. Post Launch Report for Mercury-Redstone No. 3 (MR-3)
83. Flight Transcript
84. Mercury Capsule 7 Flight Operations Manual
85. Mercury-Redstone 3 News Release
86. CONFERENCE ON MEDICAL RESULTS OF THE FIRST US MANNED SUBORBITAL SPACE FLIGHT
87. Results of the Second Manned US Orbital Flight
88. Liberty Bell 7 Recovery Evaluation and Nondestructive Testing
89. Actual trajectory of Mercury-Redstone flight test MR-4
90. MA-4 Post Flight News Conference
91. POSTLAUNCH REPORT FOR MERCURY-ATLAS NO. 1
92. PROJECT MERCURY - REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS OF THE MERCURY GROUND RANGE DURING MERCURY-ATLAS /MA-4/ MISSION, SEPTEMBER 11-13, 1961
93. Project Mercury: Technical Information Summary of Mercury-Atlas Mission 5/9 (Capsule no. 9)
94. Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury-Atlas no. 5 (MA-5)
95. Mercury-Atlas no. 5 (MA-5) Spacecraft No. 9 Data Analysis Report
96. Results of the First United States Manned Space Flight, February 20, 1962
97. Mercury-Atlas 6 Flight Plan
98. Mercury-Atlas 6 Flight Report
99. Mercury-Atlas 6 Memos
100. Mercury-Atlas 6 Mission Brochure
101. Mercury-Atlas 6 Network Report
102. Mercury-Atlas 6 News Releases
103. Mercury-Atlas 6 Postlaunch Memorandum Report
104. Mercury-Atlas 6 Press Releases
105. Mercury-Atlas 6 Reports
106. Mercury-Atlas 6 Senate Report
107. Mercury-Atlas 6 Technical Report
108. Technical Information Summary Mercury-Atlas mission 6 (MA-6 spacecraft 13)
109. Capsule Flight Operations Manual Capsule 13
110. Mercury-Atlas 7 Postlaunch Memorandum Report
111. Mercury-Atlas 7 Results of the Second U.S. Orbital Space Flight
112. Mercury-Atlas 7 Flight Plan
113. Second United States manned three-pass orbital mission/Mercury-Atlas 7, spacecraft 18/. Description and performance analysis
114. Effect of MA-7 Spacecraft Accelerations and Reentry Decelerations on the Liquid-Vapor Interface in a Baffled Tank
115. Mercury-Atlas 8 Results of the Third U.S. Orbital Space Flight
116. Mercury-Atlas 8 Postlaunch Memorandum Report
117. Mercury capsule no. 16 configuration specification (Mercury - Atlas no. 8)
118. MERCURY NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR MA-8
119. Radiation Dosimetry Aboard the Spacecraft of the Eighth Mercury-Atlas Mission /MA-8/
120. Mercury-Atlas 8 Flight Plan
121. First U.S. Manned Six-Pass Orbital Mission /Mercury-Atlas 8, Spacecraft 16
122. Radiation Dosimetry Aboard the Spacecraft of the Eighth Mercury-Atlas Mission /MA-8/
123. Measurements of the astronauts' radiation exposure with nuclear emulsion on Mercury missions MA-8 and MA-9
124. Effect of MA-7 Spacecraft Accelerations and Reentry Decelerations on the Lquid-Vapor Interface in a Baffled Tank
125. Atlas space booster flight test plan for Mercury Atlas booster 113D
126. Mercury Project Summary - Results of Fourth Manned Orbital Flight
127. Mercury-Atlas 9 Postlaunch Memorandum Report
128. Mercury-Atlas 9 Composite Air-to-Ground and Onboard Voice Tape Transcription
129. Mercury-Atlas 9 Flight Plan
130. Radiation Measurements on the Ninth Mercury- Atlas Mission /MA-9/
131. Flashing-Beacon Experiment for Mercury-Atlas 9 /MA-9/ Mission
132. Measurements of the astronauts' radiation exposure with nuclear emulsion on Mercury missions MA-8 and MA-9
133. Mercury spacecraft no. 15A Configuration Specification (Mercury-Atlas No. 10)

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