Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).

This clearly shows how NASA use of ICBM boosters for Projects Mercury and Gemini ( blue ) served as a highly visible demonstration of confidence in reliability at a time when failure rates had been substantial.

Human spaceflight programs ( Vostok, Mercury, Voskhood, Gemini, etc.

Mercury laid the groundwork for Project Gemini and the follow-on Apollo moon-landing program.

Instead, the Titan was used for the Gemini program which followed Mercury.

In a joking nod to the sinking of his Mercury craft Grissom named the first Gemini spacecraft Molly Brown after the popular Broadway show The Unsinkable Molly Brown ; NASA publicity officials were unhappy with this name.

* Grissom Avenue at the former Mather Air Force Base, now known as Sacramento Mather Airport, Rancho Cordova, California, is one of a number of streets at the former base named after Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program astronauts.

NASA footage including Grissom's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions was released in high definition on the Discovery Channel in June 2008 in the television series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

For the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft, such communications blackouts lasted for several minutes.

Most of the research effort to date has centered on Earth atmosphere entry configurations ( Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle ), planetary entry designs ( Viking, Pioneer Venus, Galileo and MSL ), and aerobraking ( AFE ) configurations.

NASA's Project Mercury and Gemini space flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, as were all of the Apollo flights and Space Shuttles.

These were his only two space flights, as his flight status was interrupted for five years ( 1964 – 69 ) during the Mercury and Gemini programs by Ménière's disease, an inner-ear disease that was surgically corrected before his Moon flight.

During the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, astronauts were trained there.

The Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules all splashed down in the sea.

Also proposed was a heat shield forming an ablative insulation made from carbon fibre or fiberglass in a honeycomb matrix, later used on NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs.

It should be noted that many engineers involved in this and similar Avro designs were later heavily involved in NASA Projects Mercury Gemini, and Apollo.

Its upgraded version, the Atlas-D rocket, would later serve as an operational nuclear ICBM and be used as the orbital launch vehicle for Project Mercury and the remote-controlled Agena Target Vehicle used in Project Gemini.

* TheSpaceRace. com – Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs

The splashdown method of landing was utilized for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo ( including Skylab, which used Apollo capsules ).

All later Mercury, Gemini and Apollo capsules had a flotation collar ( similar to a rubber life raft ) attached to the spacecraft to increase their buoyancy.

) All Gemini and Apollo flights ( Apollos 7 to 17 ) used the former, while Mercury missions from Mercury 6 to Mercury 9, as well as all Skylab missions and Apollo-Soyuz used the latter, especially the Skylab flights as to preserve all medical data.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

Caligula began appearing in public dressed as various gods and demigods such as Hercules, Mercury, Venus and Apollo.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

Although Lugus may originally have been a deity of light or the sun ( though this is disputed ), similar to the Roman Apollo, his importance as a god of trade made him more comparable to Mercury, and Apollo was instead equated with the Celtic deity Belenus.

Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond.

Apollo is an ancient Greek name for Mercury as a morning star.

* Apollo, the ancient Greek name for the planet Mercury, when observed just before dawn as a morning star

Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus and Mercury stealing them ( 1645 )

As a youth, she was inspired by Project Mercury and the Apollo moon landing program.

Mercury capsules were somewhat bell-shaped, and this one received a painted crack to mimic the original bell.

However, as NASA moved to ballistic capsules during Project Mercury, funding for research into winged vehicles slowly disappeared, and LACE work along with it.

However, as NASA moved to ballistic capsules during Project Mercury, funding for research into winged vehicles slowly disappeared, and LACE along with it.

This camera was the first SLR system that was adopted and used seriously by the general population of professional photographers, especially by those photographers covering the Vietnam War, and those news photographers utilizing motor-driven Nikon Fs with 250-exposure backs to record the various launches of the space capsules in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs, all in the 1960s.

Between 1959 and 1961, Project Mercury capsules were tested at Wallops in support of NASA's manned space flight program before astronauts were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Little Joe was an unmanned United States solid-fueled booster rocket used for eight launches from 1959 – 1960 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and heat shield for Project Mercury capsules, as well as the name given to the test program using the booster.

Fleet Air Wing Five aircraft also played an important part in America ’ s early manned space programs in 1965 and 1966, helping to locate Mercury and Gemini capsules after splashdowns.

All US manned capsules ( Mercury, Gemini, Apollo ) would land on water ; the Soviet / Russian Soyuz and Chinese Shenzhou ( and planned US, Russian, Indian ) manned capsules uses small rockets to touch down on land.

The early space capsules such as those on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were given blunt shapes to produce a stand-off bow shock.

Headquartered in St. Louis, the company quickly grew into the principal supplier of fighter aircraft to the U. S. Air Force and U. S. Navy, including the F-4 Phantom II fighter and the Mercury and Gemini space capsules.

The Mercury and Gemini capsules were built by McDonnell.

The garden also features mock-ups of capsules from the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs that visitors can get in, and the walkway and white room that Apollo astronauts used to access their capsules from the launch tower of LC-39A.