aircraft. It is best known for its role as the spacesuit worn by the astronauts of the Project Mercury spaceflights. The MK IV Full Pressure Suit ensemble...

Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990, his family lent it the spacesuit worn by Grissom during Mercury 4 along with other personal artifacts belonging to the...

A space suit (or spacesuit) is an environmental suit used for protection from the harsh environment of outer space, mainly from its vacuum as a highly...

Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States. Cooper learned to...

Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963, from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida...

G.B. North passed out and was seriously injured when testing a Mercury cabin/spacesuit atmosphere system in a vacuum chamber. The problem was found to...

The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...

with oxygen flowing through the spacesuit, he was soon dried out, and the countdown resumed. After the mission, the mercury space suit was modified and a...

was safe in his own couch spacesuit and did not suffer any ill effects from the loss of cabin pressure. His couch spacesuit pressure remained normal,...

The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959–60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace...

continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first...

Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the first crewed American orbital spaceflight, which took place on February 20, 1962. Piloted by astronaut John Glenn and operated...

includes simulators for use by children. The spacesuit worn by Gus Grissom during his 1961 Liberty Bell 7 Mercury flight is on display and has been the subject...

The Apollo/Skylab space suit (sometimes called the Apollo 11 Spacesuit because it was most known for being used in the Apollo 11 Mission) is a class of...

28°27′47″N 80°34′57″W / 28.463082°N 80.582562°W / 28.463082; -80.582562 The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) provided control...

direct compression suit, or space activity suit (SAS) is an experimental spacesuit which applies stable pressure against the skin by means of skintight elastic...

Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury: 1  that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was...

July 2021. "Mercury spacesuit neck dam configuration". www.collectspace.com. Retrieved 18 March 2023. Includes photos of astronauts in Mercury suits with...

of the Monster Plants". The crew's spacesuits were made with aluminum-coated fabric, like NASA's Mercury spacesuits, and had Velcro fasteners, which NASA...

women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn, Betty Grissom, Louise...

Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961, with Enos, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited...

Joseph W. Schmitt (January 2, 1916 – September 25, 2017) was a spacesuit technician for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration human space...

designed to carry two astronauts rather than the single-person capacity Mercury spacecraft. In addition to the 13 flight-rated Geminis, McDonnell would...

Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas...

a Soyuz Spacecraft and a Set of Spacesuits including Tim Peake’s Spacesuit, Buzz Aldrin’s Underwear and a Spacesuit from The Martian Film. A Gallery...

specifications for the Mercury spacesuit, with operational research suits for astronaut training and further development, followed by the final Mercury pressure suitconfiguration...

through their golden visa programs. He will wear the flag of Malta on his spacesuit during the spaceflight. Mikkelsen was born in the United Kingdom, but...

light attenuation tinted visor to be mounted on the government-issued Mercury spacesuit helmet. Born: Lydia Gouardo, a French woman who was imprisoned for...

B. North passed out and was seriously injured when testing a Mercury cabin / spacesuit atmosphere system in a vacuum chamber. The problem was found to...

through their golden visa programs. He will wear the flag of Malta on his spacesuit during the spaceflight. Mikkelsen was born in the United Kingdom, but...