mercury prodjecct

  • LJ-1

    LJ-1
    It went up for 20 seconds and was the first flight with Project Mercury. It was an unmanned flight. Its purpose was to test the escape sysetm during the flight.
  • LJ-2

    LJ-2
    This was a flight that went up 11 minutes and 6 seconds. the purpose was to carry Sam, a rhesus macaque, to 85 kilometres in altitude
  • MR-2

    MR-2
    It went up for 16 minutes and 39 seconds. Its purpose was to carry to chimpanzee, Ham.
  • M-3

    M-3
    It went up for 7 minutes and 19 seconds. Thsi flisht contained robot astronots.
  • MR-3

    MR-3
    Carried the poliet Shepard and went up for 15 minutes and 28 seconds. He was the first American to make a suborbital flight into space.
  • MR-4

    MR-4
    It went up for 15 minutes and 37 seconds. It carried the poliet Gus Grissiom. This was the second suborbital flight.
  • MA-5

    MA-5
    this flisht went up for 3 hours 20 minutes and 59 seconds. Thsi carried the chimpanzee, Enos and went around 2 orbits.
  • MA-6

    MA-6
    FIrst American to orbit the Earth 3 times. The pilot was John Glenn. Up went up for 4 hours, 55 minutes 23 seconds.
  • MA-8

    MA-8
    It went up for 9 hours, 13 minutes and 11 seconds. The pilot was Wally Schrirria.
  • Murcury is over

    Murcury is over
    Thsi was the last flight Project Murcury. Poilet was Gordan Cooper.