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Did NASA have black doctors around 1960?
In the 2020 TV series "The Right Stuff" a lot of changes are made for dramatic effect. The show has a black doctor working at NASA during the Mercury programme, and he seems to be pretty ...
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Help reading this Mercury era NASA "ancient" iconography
In a collectspace.com forum, I found the following (merged) thread containing images, questions and answers: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000962.html The two images below are ...
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CAPCOM Console at Mercury Control Center; what does "Desired Retrofire Setting" time display mean?
Wikipedia's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station page links to the image Alan Shepard in Mercury Control Center (shown below).
The console has two large digital time displays. One is dedicated GMT but ...
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What are the thrusters present on the side of the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle?
I just watched a documentary about the Mercury program and was wondering what those "side rockets" (don't know how to call them properly) are for? Further stability or generating some extra thrust?
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Who really coined the phrase "Light the Candle!" to commence with a rocket launch?
This NASA's image of a Mercury-Redstone rocket Freedom 7 carrying Alan Shepard, the first American in space, is titled Light the Candle:
Light the Candle (Image ...
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Size of Apollo era astronauts
I had read that the early astronauts were all 'short guys'. This made a lot of sense. A short man can have as much stamina and endurance as a large man, yet eat less, consume less oxygen & (...
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Did NASA use metric units for the Mercury missions?
Did NASA use metric or English units for Project Mercury?
For example, did they measure delta-v in meters/second or in feet/second?
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Is there any reason why American spacesuits color changed over years?
From Mercury silver suits to orange Space Shuttle ones, color of space suits have changed over years. Is there any reason for it?
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