Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project
Template:MPHist/August4
From RixWiki
- August 15, 1960
- SEDR-109-7 The Flight Operations Manual for Capsule 7 was issued.
- August 16 1960
- At the design engineering inspection of Capsule 7, a number of requests for changes in the control panel area were made by the astronauts to facilitate pilot operation. Later, meeting procedures for design engineering inspections were standardized and conducted by a permanent team at appropriate intervals.
- 1 August 1961
- The August 1961 edition of SEDR-104 is published presumably covering Capsule 2, Capsule 3, Capsule 4, Capsule 5, Capsule 6, Capsule 7, Capsule 11, and Capsule 14.
- August 11 1962
- Mercury spacecraft reaction control system test was completed. Data compiled from this test was used to evaluate the thermal and thruster configuration of the Mercury extended range or 1-day mission spacecraft.
- August 19 1962
- Negotiations were completed with McDonnell for spacecraft configuration changes to support the Mercury 1-day manned orbital mission. The design engineering inspection, when the necessary modifications were listed, was held on June 7, 1962.
