... 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. ...
... sites that show the current position of Mercury (and the other planets) in the sky ... and customized charts can be created with a planetarium program such as Starry Night ... more Mercury images . from ASU . from LANL . from JPL . ...
... The above diagrams show correct positions for October 1996 as generated by the excellent Macintosh program Starry Night ; there are also many other planetarium programs available.) ...
... RAN on the basis of the Earth satellite monitoring (strip SSM/I data, DMSP program ... Science, the thematic plans of the Institute and 'The Russian Federal Space Program ...
... is the first mission of a new, decade-long program of robotic exploration of Mars , called the Mars Exploration Program ... The two Mercury proposals are the Mercury Polar Flyby (MPF) and Hermes (Mercury orbiter). ...