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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>

 MercuryProject: the project began on October 7th 1958 and it spanned for 5 years Astronauts: WALLY SCHIRRA, SCOTT CARPENTER, GORDON COOPER, DEKE SLAYTON, ALAN SHEPARD, JOHN GLENN America's first space program Goals achevied by the Mercury missions: The astronauts were under intense training, in this picture the were left in a desert with parachute and a scenario. They also had a mockup of the mercury spacecraft. The missions in this project include: __Unmanned:__ __Manned:__
 * orbit a manned sapcecraft around earth
 * investigate humans ability to function in space
 * Recover both man and spacecraft safely
 * [|LJ-1] Little Joe 1
 * [|BJ-1] Big Joe 1
 * [|LJ-6] Little Joe 6
 * [|LJ-1A] Little Joe 1A
 * [|LJ-2] Little Joe 2
 * [|LJ-1B] Little Joe 1B
 * [|BA-1] Beach Abort
 * [|MA-1] Mercury-Atlas 1
 * [|LJ-5] Little Joe 5
 * [|MR-1] Mercury-Redstone 1
 * [|MR-1A] Mercury-Redstone 1A
 * [|MR-2] Mercury-Redstone 2
 * [|MA-2] Mercury-Atlas 2
 * [|LJ-5A] Little Joe 5A
 * [|MR-BD] Mercury-BD
 * [|MA-3] Mercury-Atlas 3
 * [|LJ-5B] Little Joe 5B
 * [|MA-4] Mercury-Atlas 4
 * [|MS-1] Mercury-Scout 1
 * [|MA-5] Mercury-Atlas 5
 * Mercury-Redstone 3:** MAY 5 1961 Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Flight Summary:( 15 minutes, 28 seconds -- Suborbital flight that successfully put the first American in space.
 * Mercury-Redstone 4:** JULY 21 1961 Virgil I. Grissom Flight Summary: 15 minutes, 37 seconds -- Suborbital flight, successful flight but the spacecraft sank shortly after splashdown.
 * Mercury-Atlas 6:** FEB 20 1962 John H. Glenn, Jr. Flight Summary: 4 hours, 55 minutes, 23 seconds -- Three-orbit flight that placed the first American into orbit.
 * Mercury-Atlas 7:** MAY 24 1962 Scott M. Carpenter Flight Summary: 4 hours, 56 minutes, 5 seconds -- Confirmed the success of the Mercury-Atlas 6 by duplicating the flight.
 * Mercury-Atlas 8:** OCT 3 1962 Walter M. Schirra Flight Summary: 9 hours, 13 minutes, 11 seconds -- Six-orbit engineering test flight.
 * Mercury-Atlas 9:** MAY 15-16 1963 Gordon Cooper, Jr. Flight Summary: 34 hours, 19 minutes, 49 seconds -- The last Mercury mission; completed 22 orbits to evaluate effects of one day in space.

Gemini: Four objectives -1 to get astronuts use to long durations of flights, required to get to the moon and deeper in space. 2. To develope efective methods of bring two things together, to doke with other orbiting vehicles and maneuver them 3. To perfect ways to reenter Earth and land at a landing point. 4. To learn the effectsd of weightlessness on Humans for long duration flights.

On December 7, 1961 the plan to make the manned space flight longer by development of a two-man space craft. Designated Gemini on January 3, 1962

Name came from the third constlellation of the zodiac. The program was oficcaly finised wiht the Gemini XII flight

The Gamini was made after Mars because NASA realized that there needed to be a step before Apollo

Gimini was Verry Successful exept the landing the landing got cancelled, but the precision control necessary to achieve the land landing objective was demomstrated