The Mercury Program

This report is going to be based on the NASA Mercury Program. The primary goals of this report is to explain the mission and purpose of the program, to give you an overview of the program, to explain the spacecraft used in the program, and to give flight summaries. Beginning in 1958 and culminating in 1963, Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, …

…Spaceline 1) So in conclusion this NASA program paved the way for aerospace greats like Neil Armstrong and Ronald McNair. Back when the first 508 men were screened for the job all the way to Mercury-Atlas 9 in the 22-orbit flight. The technology that we have now and the things we know now would not have been possible without this program. This program would lead in the NASA Gemini program, which would eventually have humans on the moon.