Project Mercury Summation part 1-2 1963 NASA 15min

video for embedding at scitech.quickfound.net Overview of Project Mercury including preliminaries, chimpanzee flights, both suborbital spaceflights (Alan Shephard, Gus Grissom) and all four orbital flights (John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordo Cooper). NASA film JSC-180 Public domain film from the National Archives slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild noise reduction applied. part 2: www.youtube.com from "This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury" 1966 ntrs.nasa.gov As it developed after 1954, the Air Force ballistic missile development program, proceeding under the highest national priority and the pressure of Soviet missilery, featured a departure from customary progressive practice in weapons management. The label for the new, self-conscious management technique adopted by the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division-Space Technology Laboratories team was "concurrency." Translated simply, concurrency meant "the simultaneous completion of all necessary actions to produce and deploy a weapon system." But in practice the management task--involving parallel advances in research, design, testing, and manufacture of vehicles and components, design and construction of test facilities, testing of components and systems, expansion and creation of industrial facilities, and the building of launch sites--seemed overwhelmingly complex. At the beginning of 1956 the job of contriving one ICBM, the Atlas, was complicated by ...
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