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| McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri - |
| Prime contractor for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Convair Astronautics Division (GD/A), San Diego, California - |
| Prime contractor for the Atlas launch vehicle system used for the manned orbital phase of Project Mercury. Procured through Space Systems Division of Air Force Systems Command. |
| Chrysler Corporation Missile Division, Detroit, Michigan - |
| Prime contractor for the Redstone launch vehicle system used in the manned suborbital phase of Project Mercury. Procured through Army Missile Command. |
| North American Aviation, Inc., El Segundo, California - |
| Contractor for the Little Joe launch vehicle airframe used in aerodynamic and abort technique testing program phase of Project Mercury. |
| Ventura Division (formerly Radioplane) of the Northrop Corporation, Van Nuys, California - |
| Contractor for the Mercury spacecraft landing and recovery system. |
| B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio - |
| Contractor for the Mercury spacecraft astronaut pressure suit. |
| Western Electric Company, New York City, New York - |
| Prime contractor for the Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota - |
| Stabilization system for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Bell Aerospace Corporation, Buffalo, New York - |
| Reaction control system for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| AiResearch Manufacturing Division of the Garrett Corporation, Los Angeles, California - |
| Environmental control system for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| The Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk, Connecticut - |
| Periscope for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Eagle-Picher Company, Joplin, Missouri - |
| Batteries for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Barnes Engineering Company, Stamford, Connecticut - |
| Horizon scanner for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Wheaton Engineering Corporation, Wheaton, Illinois - |
| Time-delay relays and programer for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Donner Scientific Company, Concord, California - |
| Maximum altitude sensor and thrust cutoff sensor. |
| Atlantic Research Corporation, Alexandria, Virginia - |
| Escape tower jettison rocket and posigrade rocket for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Thiokol Chemical Corporation, Elkton, Maryland - |
| Retrograde rocket for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Lockheed Propulsion Company, Redlands, California - |
| Rocket motor for the Mercury spacecraft escape tower. (The original contract for this component was signed with the Grand Central Rocket Company, Redlands, California, which was later purchased by Lockheed.) |
| Cincinnati Testing and Research Laboratory of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio - |
| Heat shield for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Walter Kidde Company, Belleville, New Jersey - |
| Emergency flotation bag for the Mercury spaceccraft. |
| Aeronca Corporation, Middletown, Ohio - |
| Honeycomb panels for the Mercury spacecraft impact landing support. |
| Collins Radio Corporation, Cedar Rapids, Iowa - |
| HF and UHF voice communications and UHF recovery antenna, onboard communications for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Motorola, Incorporated, Franklin Park, Illinois - |
| Command receivers, onboard communications for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Texas Instruments, Incorporated, Dallas, Texas - |
| Onboard telemetry communications for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Cooper Electric Company - |
| Minitrack beacon, onboard communications for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Melpar, Incorporated, Falls Church, Virginia - |
| C- and S-band antennas, onboard communications for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Avion Division and G. E. - |
| C- and S-band beacons, onboard communications for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri - |
| Tape recorder for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Electro-Voice and R. E. Darling Companies, Bethesda, Maryland - |
| Communication devices for Mercury astronaut pressure suit. |
| D. B. Milliken Company, Arcadia, California - |
| Camera for Mercury spacecraft. |
| Waltham Precision Instrument Company, Waltham, Massachusetts - |
| Satellite clock for Mercury spacecraft. (Contract was canceled on December 14, 1960, and the component was replaced with the orbital timing device fabricated by McDonnell Aircraft Corp.) |
| Bendix Radio Division of the Bendix Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland - |
| Ground-air communications, radar, and aquisition systems for the Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| Bendix-Pacific Division of the Bendix Corporation, North Hollywood, California - |
| Telemetry, antennas, displays and radar data processing for the Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| International Business Machines Corporation, New York, New York - |
| Computers and computer programming for the Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| Burns and Roe, Incorporated, New York, New York - |
| Architecture, site engineering, and logistics for the Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| Stromberg-Carlson (Division of General Dynamics), Rochester, New York - |
| Control center consoles for the Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts - |
| Technical consulting services to NASA on all phases of tracking and computing. |
| Space Electronics Corporation - |
| Study contract leading to design of Mercury Control Center. |
| Aeronutronics Systems, Incorporated (Division of Ford Motor Company), Los Angeles, California - |
| Study contract relative to tracking and computing problems. |
| Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, Bethpage, New York - |
| Operations analysis study of recovery problems associated with a three-orbit mission. |
| Tenney Engineering, Incorporated, Union, New Jersey - |
| Environmental test chamber constructed in Hanger S, Cape Canaveral, Florida. |
| Philco Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - |
| Range monitors for Mercury worldwide tracking network. |
| Pan American Airways, Cape Canaveral, Florida - |
| Atlantic Missile Range operations in support of Project Mercury. |
| Inter-Electronics Corporation, New York, New York - |
| Static inverters for the Mercury spacecraft. |
| Amp, Incorporated, Greenwich, Connecticut - |
| Design of stationary egress system. |
| Federal Electric Corporation, Cape Canaveral, Florida - |
| Space telemetry. |
| Space Technology Laboratories, Redondo Beach, California - |
| Analysis of flight instrumentation and design trajectories for Mercury-Atlas program. |
