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NASA Archives Program 

Mercury Program Subject Files Collection

Series Title: Mercury Program Subject Files

Extent: 6 feet, 4 inches

Box Count: 19 boxes

Inclusive dates: 1945 – 1992

Location: 4/2/1 – 4/2/3

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Media Type: Textual, photographic, and electronic 

Access Restrictions

None.

Use Restrictions

Most government records are in the public domain, however, this series includes commercial 

materials, such as newspaper clippings, that may be subject to copyright restrictions. 

Researchers should contact the copyright holder for information.

Copy Status: Research, Use and Preservation

Preferred Citation

Mercury Program Subject Files Collection, NASA Headquarters Historical Reference Collection.

Series Description

This series consists of Mercury program files collected by the National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA) Headquarters archivists for inclusion in the Historical Reference 

Collection. Records contain materials collected from the Office of Manned Space Flight 

(OMSF), contractor historians, and NASA retirees. Specifically, this series contains 

correspondence files; reports; meeting files; speeches; oral histories; congressional briefings and 

budget files; Mercury spacecraft; Project Mercury program management; Redstone launch 

vehicle; Mercury “Friendship 7” (MA-6) flight; and Mercury “Freedom 7” (MR-3) flight.
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General Notes

NASA official records relating to the Mercury program are held in the National Archives at 

College Park, MD (HQ); Atlanta, GA (MSFC, KSC, MTF, and MAF); Philadelphia, PA (LaRC); 

and Ft. Worth, TX (MSC/JSC).

Keywords: Mercury Project; Mercury spacecraft; Redstone launch vehicles; Mercury MA-6 

flight; Mercury 7 astronauts; Mercury MR-3 flight; Little Joe launch vehicles; Mercury MA-8 

flight; Mercury MA-7 flight; Mercury MA-9 flight; Mercury MR-4 flight; Atlas launch vehicles; 

launch failures; Space Task Group (STG); John H. Glenn, Jr.; Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; M. Scott 

Carpenter; Virgil I. (“Gus”) Grissom; Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; L. Gordon (“Gordo”) Cooper, Jr.; 

Maxime A. Faget; and Donald K. (“Deke”) Slayton.

Box and folder list

Box 1 

Manned Spacecraft Locations

Holds, Cancellations, Changes OMSF Schedules

General Photos

Mercury Project Film Negatives

Box 2

Mercury Project Film Negatives II

TNO SP-4201 (Photos)

This New Ocean (SP-4201) Photos #2

Mercury Project Photos & Negs.

Box 3

SP-4201 TNO Photos #3

Project Mercury Interview August 31, 1965 Hugh L. Dryden

19.2 Project Mercury (I)

Box 4

Project Mercury General

Project Mercury

Mercury Ocean Recovery (Splashdown)

Box 5

Tracking (For Project Mercury

Mercury Project Costs

Project Mercury-Flight Schedules, Budget Estimates

STG Organiz.

DOD Support of Mercury (1959-1963)

DoD Support for Mercury

Box 6

Hornig/PSAC Man-in-Space Report (1960)

Hornig “Report of AdHoc Mercury Panel” (1961)
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Wiesner Report to JFK (1-10-61)

19.2.3 Astronauts

Mercury 7/Press Conf. D.C. 4/9/59

Seven Astronauts

Box 7

Project Mercury Status Reports 1-10

Project Mercury Status Reports 11-19

1958 NACA/USAF Recoverable Manned Satellite Test Vehicle

“Technologies of Manned Space Systems”

“Physiological Sensors for Use in Project Mercury”

“Exploring Space...Project Mercury”

Box 8

Project Mercury: Low Correspondence

Space Task Group Project Mercury Discussion

Project Mercury

19.2 Project Mercury (II)

Project Mercury Indoctrination; Manned Satellite Capsule

Manned Satellite Capsule: Part 2 Technical Proposal

“Final Report: Mercury/Atlas Launch Vehicle Program

Mercury Air-to-Ground Transcripts

Mercury/Gemini Program Design Survey

Chief Instructor’s Console Simulation

Mercury Capsule Flight Operations Manual (capsule 7) 15 Aug. 1960

Box 9

Mercury Spacecraft Photos

19.2.4 Spacecraft

Mercury – Launch Escape System

Mercury Spacecraft Disposition

Mercury Spacecraft – MAC and N. Am.

19.2.5 Spacesuits

Project Mercury Specs

Box 10

Project Mercury Familiarization Manual

Mercury Big Joe Launch (Sep. 9, 1959)

Little Joe Photos

Little Joe – General

Little Joe I (10-3-59) (LJ-6)

Little Joe II (11/4/59) (LJ-1A)

“Sam” Little Joe (LJ-2) Dec. 4, 1959

Little Joe (LJ-1B) Jan. 21, 1960 “Miss Sam” Rhesus monkey

Little Joe V (11/8/60) (LJ-5)

Little Joe (LJ-5A) Mar. 18, 1961

Little Joe VII (4/28/61) (LJ-5B)

Mercury Scout 1 November 1961
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May 9, 1960 Spacecraft #1 Beach Abort #1

Mercury-Redstone

Mercury-Redstone I (MR-1) (11/21/60)

Mercury-Redstone IA (MR-1A) Successful (12/19/60

Mercury-Redstone 1A Post Launch Report

Box 11

Mercury-Redstone 2 (MR-2)

Mercury-Redstone MR-2 Post Launch Report

Mercury-Redstone Qualification (3/24/61) (MRBD)

Mercury-Redstone-3 Photographs

Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) Alan b. Shepard, Jr Freedom 7 May 5, 1961

MR-3 Press Kit (April 1961)

Final Report Mercury Redstone Project

NASA Technical Memorandum TMX53107: “The Mercury-Redstone Project”

“Mercury-Redstone Chronology to Dec. 31, 1960

Box 12

Mercury MR3 Results

Shepard/Mercury 10th Anniversary

Shepard/Mercury 15th Anniversary

Shepard Flight (20th Anniversary)

Shepard Flight (25th Anniversary)

MR3 30th-50th Anniversary

Mercury-Redstone-4 Photographs

Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) “Liberty Bell” Virgil I. Grissom flight – 7/21/61

Mercury MR4 Results

Box 13

Postlaunch Memorandum report for Mercury-Redstone No. 4 (MR-4)

Mercury MR-4 “Liberty Bell” Hatch Controversy

Mercury MR-4 “Liberty Bell” Salvage Attempts

Mercury-Atlas I (MA-1)

Post Launch Report for Mercury-Atlas No. 1 (MA-1)

Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) (2/21/61)

Post Launch Report for Mercury-Atlas #2

Mercury-Atlas III (MA-3) (4/25/61)

Mercury-Atlas No. 3 (MA-3) Memorandum Report for the Project Director

Mercury-Atlas 4 (MA-4) September 13, 1961

Project Mercury Postlaunch Report for Mercury-Atlas Mission 4 (MA-4 Capsule 8A)

Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) November 29, 1961

Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury-Atlas No. 5 (MA-5)

Project Mercury Postlaunch Report for Mercury-Atlas Mission 5 (MA-5 Spacecraft 9)

Box 14

Mercury MA6 Photos

Mercury-Atlas 6 Photographs

Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA6) Press Kit
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Mercury MA6 Reports & Pubs.

MA-6 Newsclips

Box 15

Project Mercury Handbook MA-6

Glenn/15th Anniv./1977

Friendship 7 (25th Anniversary)

MA 6 Friendship 7 45th-50th Anniversary 2007

MA6 “Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury-Atlas No. 6 (MA-6)” Parts 1 and 2

MA6 “Results...” and “Summary Results of the First United States Manned Orbital Space Flight”

Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) “Friendship 7” John H. Glenn Flight 2/20/62

Box 16

Mercury-Atlas 7 Photographs

Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) M. Scott Carpenter 5/24/62 Aurora 7

Mercury Atlas (MA7) II

Mercury MA-7 Postlaunch Memorandum Report, Part 1 – Mission Analysis and Part 2 – Data

Project Mercury: MA7 Publications

Box 17

Mercury-Atlas 8 Photographs

Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA8) Press Kit

Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) Walter M. Schirra, Jr. Sigma 7 October 3, 1962

Mercury MA8 Launch Info.

Mercury Atlas MA-8 Post Launch Memorandum Report

Project Mercury MA8 “The Six Orbits of Sigma 7”

Project Mercury MA 8 Results of the Third United States Manned Orbital Space Flight

Box 18

Mercury-Atlas 9 Photographs

Mercury MA9 Photos II

Mercury MA9 Cooper “Faith 7” 5/15 – 16/63

Project Mercury MA9 Post Launch Memorandum Report for Mercury Atlas No. 9 (MA-9) Part 1, 

Mission Analysis

Box 19

Project Mercury MA-9 Postlaunch Memorandum Report for Mercury Atlas No. 9 (MA-9) Part 2 –

Data Part 3 – Mission Transcripts

Project Mercury MA9

Mercury Project Summary Including Results of the Fourth Manned Orbital Flight

MA-10 (Multi-Orbit, cancelled 1963)

Mercury History

XII Mercury Monument

Project Mercury Summary