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- How Project Mercury Missions Worked
- How Rocket Engines Work
- How Space Stations Work
- How Satellites Work
- How Space Planes Will Work
- How Space Elevators Will Work
- How Space Tourism Will Work
- Meteors burn up when they hit the earth's atmosphere. Why doesn't the space shuttle?
- Can you make a rocket engine using hydrogen peroxide and silver?
- Will we ever have space ships parked in our garages?
- How do satellites orbit the earth?
- How does an oxygen canister on an airplane or a spacecraft work? How can heat generate oxygen?
Other Great Links
- The Mercury Project Home page
- Project Mercury Drawings and Technical Diagrams
- Project Mercury: A Chronology
- Space Medicine in Project Mercury
- This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury
- Mercury Project Summary Including Results of the Fourth Manned Orbital Flight
- Results of the Second U.S. Manned Suborbital Spaceflight July 12, 1961 (Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 flight)
- NASA Mercury Project Summary (NASA SP-45)
- The Ultimate Space Place: Project Mercury
- Project Mercury Archives
- Alan Shepard 1923-1998
- Project Mercury Images Index
- A-OK The Wings of Mercury 3.0: Educational Space Simulation
Books and Videos
Books
- "The Right Stuff," by Tom Wolfe
- "Deke!: U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury to the Shuttle," by Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt (Contributor), Deke Slayton
- "Schirra's Space," by Wally Schirra, Walter M. Schirra, Richard Billings (Contributor)
- "Leap of Faith: An Astronaut's Journey into the Unknown," by Gordon Cooper, Bruce Henderson (Contributor)
- "Flight: My Life in Mission Control," by Chris Kraft
- "To Rise from Earth : An Easy-To-Understand Guide to Space Flight," by Wayne Lee
Videos: DVD
Videos: VHS
- "The Right Stuff" (1983)
- "Moonshot" (1995)
- "From the Earth to the Moon" (1998)
- "In Search of Liberty Bell 7" (1999)
