Part II — Research and Development Phase of Project Mercury
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1958 (Cont.)
Figure 3.— Little Joe on Launcher at Wallops During Checkout.
October 27
A special Committee on Life Sciences was established at Langley to determine qualifications and attributes required of personnel to be selected for America’s first manned space flight and to give advice on other human aspects of the manned satellite program.[1]
During the Month of October
Drop tests of full-scale capsules from a C-130 airplane were started to check parachute deployment and spacecraft stability. Preliminary drops of the parachute system were made from a NASA helicopter at West Point,
- ↑ Letter, Charles J. Donlan, Associate Director, STG, to Willson H. Hunter, NASA Headquarters, subject: Transmittal of Materials Requested by Willson H. Hunter, Dec. 16, 1960. This letter outlines the overall sequence of events in the astronaut selection program.
