... The search was underway for pilots for the exciting new manned space flight program. ... and it tailored physical stature requirements to the small cabin space available in the Mercury capsule then being designed ...
... Although much of the design work for Gemini and Apollo was carried out by independent teams, both programs used design features which had been tested during Mercury and were further validated during the Gemini flights. ...
... the orbiter carries out a comprehensive program of observations of Jupiter and ... Galileo spacecraft was designed to operate from programs sent to it in advance and ...
... Like Mercury , it was popularly thought to be two separate bodies: Eosphorus as the ... surface is actually hotter than Mercury's despite being nearly twice as far from the ...
... list of future programs; and the major implication of that review was that, while the nation had been committed to the Kennedy goal, it was the politics of space that had opened the public purse and not an overwhelming interest in the space program itself ...
... Chronology of Space Exploration . Sun . Mercury . Venus . Moon . Mars . ... Mariner 10 - USA Mercury/Venus Flyby - 526 kg - (November 3, 1973 - March 24, 1975) Mariner 10 was the first dual planet ...