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the landing was a failur as well as the mission
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Alan Shepard became the first american in space.
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Virgil Grissom had a sucsesful fllight but space craft sank soon after landing.
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the mission was partally sucsesful
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Mission was a failer
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after the launch the capsule was spotted by a P-5M search airplane
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John Glenn became the first american man to orbit the Earth
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Scott Carpenter cnfirmed the success of the Mercury-atlas 6 by duplacating the flight
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Walter Schirra made the sixth orbit engineering test flight
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L. Gordon Cooper Jr. was on the last Mercury mission. He completed 22 orbits to evaluate effescts of one day in space.
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