Article: Mercury space program

Article: Interview with three astronauts marks 25th anniversaries of ...
PR Newswire;  April 28, 1987 ;     612 words ... ... Interview and photo opportunities with men who know the U.S. space program from the triumph of the Mercury project to the Challenger ... beyond. WHY: Observing the 25th anniversaries of the project Mercury space flight and of Minolta Corporation's Micrographics Division ...

Article: Handful of space program chimps to get reprieve ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the fledgling U.S. space program, Robin and Penny will ... the Soviet Union's space program, which had already ... Glenn and Shepard in Mercury space capsules. Ham returned ... animals in the 1960s space program and their offspring ...

Article: AFIT'S HISTORICAL, CURRENT LINKS TO AMERICA'S SPACE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 10, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... to attempt space flight as part of the Project Mercury space program. Three were Air Force pilots, two of whom ... Apollo program would go on. Apollo 11 realized the space program's dream of a man on the moon when on 20 July ...

Article: The Space Program: Project Mercury
American Decades;      700+ words ...THE SPACE PROGRAM: PROJECT MERCURY The Trip The early space travelers were almost all ... a commander in the navy, was launched into space in his Project Mercury space capsule Freedom 7. In military fashion he was allowed to name his ...

Article: Chimps retired from space program face uncertain ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  January 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... became the largest animal sent into space, astronaut Alan Shepard followed him. A year later, a chimp named Enos rode the Mercury space capsule twice around the planet two months before John Glenn made his famous orbit. The Air Force credits the chimps with ...

Article: Richard R. Quigley Jr., 71, worked on space ...
The Boston Herald;  January 9, 2005 ;     574 words ... ... Germany. Mr. Quigley was a chemist for Arthur D. Little Co. in Cambridge, where he worked on the technology for NASA's Mercury space capsule. He also worked for Sprague Electronics in Pittsfield, and as a drug and alcohol counselor at Stanley Street Treatment ...

Article: Animal activists in struggle to gain custody of chimps that ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... astrochimps. Recruited by the Air Force in the late 1950s, 65 toddler chimpanzees grew up learning to be at the helm in the Mercury space capsules that paved the way for an American to land on the moon. These animals found stardom in 1961 when one sharp chimp ...