Electronic Design

Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne: Two Different Missions that Shaped the Space Race (Part 1)

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...
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NASA’s Forgotten Escape Plan for Astronauts

From the days of the Mercury space program, the means of evacuating astronauts from a burning or otherwise compromised rocket vexed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known just ...
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Mercury Signs New Hardware Production Agreement with AV to Support U.S. Space Force’s SCAR Program

ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (MRCY) (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mrcy.com), a technology company that delivers mission-critical processing to the edge, today announced ...
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Visitors looking at Project Mercury Capsule, National Air Museum

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Two young visitors looking at a model ...
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What It's Like To Freefall From 20 Miles Above The Earth

Early Air Force experiments helped pave the way for the space program. Joseph Kittinger, who jumped from a balloon 103,000 feet up, talks about... What It's Like To Freefall From 20 Miles Above The ...
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Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne: Two Different Missions that Shaped the Space Race (Part 2)

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...