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 Aero/Space Eng v 19 n 4 Apr 1960 p 48-53, 58)
Mercury capsule and its flight systems
Aircraft Missiles
Aircraft and Missiles ; 3 , n 4
1960
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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