LINKS

1. Post Launch Report for Mercury-Redstone No. 3 (MR-3). MR-3, Freedom 7, Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

2. Results of the Second Manned Suborbital Space Flight, July 21, 1961. This relatively brief report covers Gus Grissom’s flight and the mishap in which the Liberty Bell capsule sunk. It includes the voice transcript of the mission, as well as Grissom’s interesting account of the mission.

3. Results of the first U.S. piloted orbital space flight, February 20, 1962.

4. SP-6. Results of the second U.S. piloted orbital space flight, May 24, 1962.

5. SP-12. Results of the third U.S. piloted orbital space flight, October 3, 1962.

6. SP-45. Mercury Project Summary, including results of the fourth piloted orbital flight, May 15 and 16, 1963.

7. SP-4001. Project Mercury: A Chronology. NASA SP-4001.

8. SP-4003. Space Medicine in Project Mercury. Mae Mills Link, NASA SP-4003, 1965. This book covers some important early life sciences and biomedical research that NASA conducted in the early 1960s.

9. SP-4201. This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury. Swenson Loyd, Grimwood James, Alexander Charles, NASA SP-4201, 1966. This New Ocean explores the people and the technology that made Project Mercury possible. It is a comprehensive and worthwhile read of America’s first human spaceflight program.