num_pages: 6132
description: This definitive electronic book on CD-ROM presents a magnificent collection of documents and images from the historic Project Mercury space program. Over thirty documents provide an incredible 6000 pages of important reference and research material! Some of the internal NASA documents in the collection have been made available for the first time by World Spaceflight News. Among the documents: reproductions of the official air-to-ground communications transcripts, flight plans, mission results, NASA histories, Mercury capsule specifications, flight operations manual, astronaut familiarization manual, Mercury 7 astronaut biographies and background information, and drawings and technical diagrams. Complete onboard flight recorder audio from the mission of John Glenn is provided on Real Audio computer files. A special feature of this CD-ROM is our "IMAGE GALLERY" in Adobe Acrobat format, which reproduces nearly 700 Project Mercury photos in a computerized "photo album" suitable for quick full-screen browsing! In the Image Gallery, many of the photos are accompanied by the official NASA caption. This format was designed to mimic the look and "feel" of a real book; there is no need to laboriously import specific images into a slow-loading program for viewing and printing. As you flip through the images in the Gallery, you can magnify photographs for better viewing. For completeness, we've also included each of the original image files (in .gif and .jpg formats) which can be copied onto your computer and used as you would any graphics file. This CD-ROM is perfect for anyone interested in the spectacular history of American manned spaceflight and the Mercury program! Please see the Table of Contents section for a full list of documents. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1, NT, and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
title: 20th Century NASA History: MERCURY - NASA Documents, Images, and Mission Transcripts
titlecomplete: 20th Century NASA History: MERCURY - NASA Documents, Images, and Mission Transcripts
publisher: Progressive Management