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 * Category 1 – Mercury & Gemini **
 * Mercury PROGRAM || NASA Past ||
 * Gemini PROGRAM || NASA Past ||

NASA PAST Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html

Mercury PROGRAM: First space American program

Objectives: Manned spaceflight into orbit around earth Investigate human performance in space Safely recover spacecraft and crew took 4 2/3years 6 manned flights Redstone 4-1st american in space Redstone 5 Atlas 6-1st american to orbit Atlas 7 Atlas 8 Atlas 9- last mercury mission Astronauts:Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, John H. Glenn, Jr., Scott M. Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra, L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Began 1958

"Monkey missions" Several unmanned missions