OTD In Space - May 15: Last Flight of NASA's Mercury Program

On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was ...
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Nationwide Mercury Thermostat Collection Program Started

The Thermostat Recycling Corporation and the Product Stewardship Institute Inc. jointly announced the nationwide rollout of mercury thermostat recycling program via local household hazardous waste ...
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Project Mercury Astronaut Photograph [Burchfield]

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Project Mercury was the United States' first human spaceflight program. Delmas D. "Del" Burchfield (1926-2016) was an engineer at McDonnell ...
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Researcher awarded grant for two-year mercury project

A University of Nevada, Reno researcher has been awarded a $250,000 contract to conduct a two-year research project to characterize mercury emissions to the atmosphere from areas of mining waste, the ...
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Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne: Two Different Missions that Shaped the Space Race (Part 2)

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...