Objectives and principles of NASA Project Mercury; design environment and requirements; features of capsule and escape rocket configuration; tabulation of methods by which escape from booster can be initiated; Mercury-Atlas mission sequence; capsule internal arrangement; environmental and attitude control systems; automatic control system modes; communication systems; use of electrical batteries as power source; measurements by instrumentation, cameras and recording, instrument panel. (see also Aircraft and Missiles v 3 n 4 Apr 1960 p 26-30)


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    Title :

    Mercury capsule and its flight systems


    Additional title:

    Aero/Space Eng


    Contributors:
    Faget, M.A. (author) / Piland, R.O. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1960


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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