MERCURY - PICTURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

            Number                              Description

    1. Organization of Scientific Community (1959)
    2. Deceleration Sled (Lt. Col. Stapp)
    3. Creating Short Periods of Weightlessness
    4. Johnsville Centrifuge
    5. Early Aerodynamic Concepts
    6. First and Second Monkey in Suborbital Flight
    7. Selection Process—Candidate John Glenn Undergoes Tests
    8. Laboratory Test Results—Candidates and Selected Candidates
    9. Physiological Test Results—Candidates and Selected Candidates
    10. Astronauts Carpenter, Slayton, and Grissom Undergo Stress Testing
    11. Seven Military Test Pilots Selected for Project Mercury
    12. Survival Training for Mercury Astronauts
    13. Design, Manufacture, and Installation of Individual Contour Couches
    14. Fitted 5-psi Pressure Suit
    15. Evolution of Pressure Suit
    16. Simulators and Trainers for Project Mercury (a)
    17. Simulators and Trainers for Project Mercury (b)
    18. Life Support Equipment
    19. Organization of Space Tasks Group, Jan. 1960
    20. Medical Support for Manned Flight in Mercury
    21. Dept. of Defense (DOD) Medical Support for Mercury
    22. Real-time Communication Network for Project Mercury
    23. Recovery of Astronauts after Reentry (a)
    24. Recovery of Astronauts after Reentry (b)
    25. Nursing Support—Lt. Delores "Dee" O’Hara, USAF
    26. Testing of Mercury Spacecraft (inculuding Rhesus Monkey)
    27. Chimpanzee Ham Completes Flight !! (Jan.31, 1961)
    28. Provisions for Safe Recovery
    29. First two Manned Suborbital Flights in Project Mercury
    30. Chimpanzee Enos does First Orbital Flight –Nov. 29, 1961
    31. First Manned Orbital Flight (Feb. 20, 1962)
    32. Carpenter, Shirra, and Cooper Complete Manned Orbital Flights
    33. Space Medicine—Automatic Medical Injectors
    34. Space Medicine—Food on Mercury Flights
    35. Space Medicine—Biosensors for Telemetry to Earth
    36. Sample Time-line for Physiological Measures
    37. Mercury Biomedical Data Requirements
    38. Heart Rate and Acceleration for One Astronaut
    39. Heart Rate Only for Six Astronauts
    40. Vital Signs—Mercury 3 Flight
    41. Serum and Plasma Enzymes Summary—Mercury 3 Flight
    42. Physical Exam during Simulated and Actual Flight—Mercury 4 Flight
    43. Blood Chemistry Findings—Mercury 4 Flight
    44. Clinical Evaluation—Mercury 6 Flight
    45. Fluid Intake and Output—Mercury Flight
    46. Preflight and Postflight Peripheral Blood Values—Mercury 7 Flight
    47. Physiological Monitoring—Summary of Heart Rate & Respiration (Mercury 8)
    48. Summary of Blood Pressure Data—Mercury 8 Flight
    49. Pilot Preflight Activities—Mercury 9 Flight
    50. Urine Analysis—Mercury 9 Flight
    51. Summary of Tilt Studies—Mercury 9 Flight
    52. First NASA Director of Space Medicine—Dr. "Randy" Lovelace, MD

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