Provides a chronology of Project Mercury, including information on major events leading to Project Mercury, the research and development phase of Project Mercury, and the operational phase of Project Mercury.

This site has links to many, many NASA resources about the Mercury program. Detailed information on each of the Mercury missions as well as a large number of images are available from this site.

The article on this website provides a detailed description of the contributions that Langley provided to the Mercury Space Missions.

This site from NASA contains the text of the book "This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury" by Loyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander.

Here you can look at the patches issued for Mercury Missions 3-9.

The story of America's first astronaut to orbit the earth during the Mercury Space program. After launching the program click on continue or on the numbers to learn about the story of the Mercury program and the first American to orbit...

A collection of images and movies from the original Project Mercury space missions, Gemini Project, and Apollo missions of the 1960s.

This site from NASA provides a listing of all Apollo mission primary and back up crews along with the "CapComs" or ground to spacecraft communicatators. The first through seventh astronaut selection groups and a listing of Accumulated...

NASA's space science site for kids - en Espanol. Features a wide range of activities, including games, projects, animations, and more. Also contains useful information on basic physics, chemistry, and other natural sciences, offering...

On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduces America's first astronauts to the press. Learn more about Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil (Gus) Grissom, Walter...

This site includes a lesson for teachers to use when teaching about America's space program. Also included is the history of the space program, maps, readings, images of the space program, and benefits that resulted from space research.

It sounds odd to think of some space suits as actually being historic! But we've been traveling in outer space for quite sometime and space suits were bound to change. Here is an interactive on the different aspects of space travel garb...