Dedication
This site is dedicated to all of the brave humans who have risked their lives in what is still the early days of space exploration but in particular to:
- Gus Grissom April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967
- Deke Slayton March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993
- Alan Shepard November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998
- Gordon Cooper March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004
- John Glenn July 18, 1921 –
- Wally Schirra March 12 1923 – May 3, 2007
- Scott Carpenter May 1, 1925 –
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History...
Today is Wednesday August 27, 2008 (in the US Eastern timezone).
If the date seems wrong try refreshing the page
From the Mercury development chronology:
- 27 August 1961
- Capsule 13 Shipped to Cape Canaveral
Did you know...
Those nifty Mercury patches that are for sale in museum gift shops were designed well after the Mercury program ended.
- B.F. Goodrich made about a dozen Mercury Pressure suits the size of a small boy.
Find out why: Boy sized pressure suits
- While those white boots in the picture might be spiffy looking, neither they nor the military boots often shown in photos of the Mercury astronauts accurately represent what they wore in flight. The actual flight boots were lightweight, much like those worn by racing drivers today. They were silver-colored like the suit itself which had neoprene rubber "socks" to ensure that the suit was airtight. The suit worn by Gordon Cooper on the last Mercury flight had the "boots" as an integral part of the suit itself.
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