[DOC] [TLE] Mercury-Atlas 8 - Wikipedia [PAR] Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) was the fifth United States manned space mission, part of 
NASA's Mercury program. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., orbited the Earth six 
times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft on October 3, 1962, in a nine-hour flight ... The 
Soviet missions had both orbited the Earth, and the second, Vostok 2, had 
remained... [DOC] [TLE] Project Mercury - Wikipedia [PAR] Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, 
running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal 
was to put a man into Earth ... When Mercury ended in May 1963, both nations 
had sent six people into space, but the Soviets led the U.S. in total time spent in 
space. [DOC] [TLE] NASA and Project Mercury - Scott Carpenter [PAR] The new space agency had, however, inherited its core mission, ethos and staff 
... eventually won in July 1969 when, with the Apollo program, it landed men on 
the ... selection of the Mercury astronauts (1 marine, 3 navy, 3 air force) and also 
in the ... For Shepard's flight, Carpenter and Schirra were assigned to chase 
aircraft... [DOC] [TLE] s6ch1 - NASA History Homepage [PAR] For the first long term flight, the two-week Gemini 7 mission, nutritional ... cm3 per 
man per day (110 cubic inches), also had to allow for all packaging ... from 
increased personal selection of food items by the astronauts as the program 
progressed. ... Each mission in the Apollo series had different objectives and 
requirements,... [DOC] [TLE] Mercury Crewed Flights Summary | NASA [PAR] Nov 30, 2006 ... Mercury, America's first human space flight program, introduced the ... last 
Mercury mission; completed 22 orbits to evaluate effects of one day in space. ... 
Side profile closeup photo of astronaut Alan Shepard in pressure suit with helmet 
..... Sixty-nine men had reported to Washington in two groups by the... [DOC] [TLE] Project Gemini - A Chronology. Part 1 (A) - NASA History Homepage [PAR] These included: (1) an enlarged Mercury capsule to put two men in orbit for three 
days; ... In its 1960 budget, NASA had requested $2 million to study possible 
methods of ... the Mercury capsule into a two-man laboratory for extended space 
flights. .... Associate Director (Development), described an intermediate program 
that... [DOC] [TLE] Space Rocket History by Michael Annis on iTunes [PAR] For the first time a command was given for OKB-1 to put one man on the moon 
and ... Part 2, Vladimir Shatalov would become the Soviet Union's 13th space .... 
Mercury Atlas 8 became the third manned orbital flight of the Mercury program. ... 
After the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967, changes had to be made,, 3/30/2016, Free
... [DOC] [TLE] GEMINI IX | Gene Cernan [PAR] The Gemini flights were crucial steps toward reaching the moon. ... was a 
necessary intermediate step between Project Mercury and the Apollo Program, 
and had four objectives: 1) To subject astronauts to long duration flights- a ... The 
two man crew of Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan orbited the earth 47 times 
before... [DOC] [TLE] Space Program-Dennis-O-Connor [PAR] The Mercury program used a one person capsule designed and built by ... When 
Mercury ended in May 1963, both nations had sent six people into ... Gemini was 
an intermediate step between Mercury and Apollo started in ... Its major 
objectives: to subject two men and their equipment to long duration, microgravity 
flights;... [DOC] [TLE] Gemini - Encyclopedia Astronautica [PAR] At a cost of 5% of the Apollo project, NASA staged twelve flights, ten of them ... 
use of a 2-man Gemini re-entry vehicle instead of the 3-man Apollo capsule. ... 
Gemini 10 First free space walk from one spacecraft to another. ..... McDonnell 
had been studying the concept of a maneuverable Mercury spacecraft since 
1959. [DOC] [TLE] Space Exploration - Travis Heritage Center [PAR] The politics, science

Question: Mercury flights had 1 astronaut, Apollo had 3; this intermediate program had 2-man flights
Answer: Gemini