NASA release date June 21, 2011 The terminator of Mercury, shown here in color, is the line between light and dark, or day and night. On Mercury, three days are equivalent to two years, or in other words, the planet spins around its axis three times for ever…
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This photograph shows a group of officials standing before a Mercury-Redstone booster at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). Among those in the photograph are astronauts James Lovell, Walter Schirra, and Gus Grissom. Also pictured is Joachim Kuettner who…
Ver en NASA ↗S62-00371 (20 Feb. 1962) --- Mercury astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) spaceflight, enters the Mercury "Friendship 7" spacecraft during the MA-6 prelaunch preparations at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Glenn became the first American …
Ver en NASA ↗A solar magnetic active region containing the largest sunspot group of the last 10 years unleashed a large (X1.2) flare when it was facing right towards Earth. The flare was associated with a bright coronal mass ejection that emerges from the lower right (Ja…
Ver en NASA ↗The exterior of this unnamed crater on Mercury is in shadow, while the inner wall and terraces bask in the sunshine. Terraces form just after the crater has been excavated, when oversteepened slopes slump back down as seen by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.
Ver en NASA ↗Visit to Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field by Mercury 13 Astronaut Trainee, Wally Funk
Ver en NASA ↗Visit to Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field by Mercury 13 Astronaut Trainee, Wally Funk
Ver en NASA ↗This image from NASA MESSENGER spacecraft is the last one acquired and transmitted back to Earth by the mission. The image is located within the floor of the 93-kilometer-diameter crater Jokai.
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NBC reporter Jay Barbree introduces Alice Wackermann, Julie Jenkins and Laura Churchley, daughters of astronaut Alan Shepard, to the audience at a celebration at Complex 5/6 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The celebr…
Ver en NASA ↗CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- From left, NBC reporter Jay Barbree and Alice Wackermann, Julie Jenkins (at microphone) and Laura Churchley, daughters of astronaut Alan Shepard, participate in a celebration at Complex 5/6 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florid…
Ver en NASA ↗This image from NASA MESSENGER spacecraft provides a perspective view of the center portion of Carnegie Rupes, a large tectonic landform, which cuts through Duccio crater.
Ver en NASA ↗This composite image includes a photograph of pilot Joe Algranti testing the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF) inside Altitude Wind Tunnel at NASA’s Lewis Research Center with other images designed to simulate the interior of a Mercury space cap…
Ver en NASA ↗S65-24622 (May 1962) --- Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) flight, is seen in Hangar S crew quarters during a suiting exercise. He is assisted in suiting by technician Al Rochford. In this view, Carpenter is fully suited…
Ver en NASA ↗MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TX. -- FIRST ASTRONAUT TEAM -- Project Mercury Astronauts, whose selection was announced on April 9, 1959, only six months after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formally established on Oct. 1, 1958, inc…
Ver en NASA ↗S64-14870 (May 1962) --- Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) flight, is seen in Hangar S crew quarters during a preflight suiting activity at Cape Canaveral, Florida. He is assisted in suiting by technician Al Rochford. In…
Ver en NASA ↗G60-02461 (1960) --- Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. prepares to enter gondola of centrifuge which is used to test gravitational stress on astronauts training for spaceflight. Schirra became the pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) six-orbit space mission. Pho…
Ver en NASA ↗B59-00723 (1959) --- Close-up of astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot for the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) mission, during centrifuge training. (M-199) Photo credit: NASA
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- READIED FOR FLIGHT - Project Mercury's second manned suborbital space flight, Liberty Bell 7, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., will be attempted during the week of July 16, utilizing this 58-foot Mercury-Redstone vehicle. Significant …
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Project Mercury Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, primary pilot for the Mercury-Redstone 4 manned space flight known as Liberty Bell 7, gets an assist from suit specialist Joe W. Schmidt as he prepares for the Mercury-Redstone 4 manne…
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities, workers verify the correct placement of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft on a test stand. Once in place, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, bu…
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities, the attachment of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft to a test stand is complete. The spacecraft is now ready for employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laborat…
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities, workers lower NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft onto a test stand using an overhead crane. Once in place, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, bu…
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities, workers monitor NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft as it is lowered onto a test stand by an overhead crane. Once in place, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physic…
Ver en NASA ↗KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the Astrotech Space Operations processing facilities, workers prepare to move NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft onto a test stand using an overhead crane. There, employees of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, …
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