Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project

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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.