February 2022
Building space-qualified detector chips
...material that possesses this capability is its distant cousin, mercury cadmium telluride (MCT). By adjusting its composition, ...water management. Fabrication The production of a mercury cadmium telluride detector involves some rather esoteric processes...
12 December 2016
John Glenn; one of NASA's original 'Mercury 7' astronauts dies aged 95
...War II and the Korean War, Glenn was one of the “Mercury Seven,” a group of military test pilots selected by NASA in...7.” After spending about five hours in orbit, he showed that the Mercury spacecraft was fit to operate in space and it made Glenn an ...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... reaches the innermost planet of the Solar System, Mercury, in 2025. Mercury is a world of extremes and uniqueness. For... planet is so intriguing to study and why, to date, Mercury has remained the least explored terrestrial planet of the Solar System;...
29 March 2018
NASA Mercury Owner’s Workshop Manual
... of the development, construction and use of NASA’s one-man Mercury capsule of the early 1960s. In common with the other books...book itself is divided into five main sections covering Mercury’s origins and development, and detailing its main subsystems...
31 July 2019
Mercury: the View after MESSENGER
... on the spacecraft designed to inform the main areas of interest. Subsequent chapters cover those areas in detail, including Mercury’s chemical composition, its crust and internal structure, its magnetic field and the effects of impact cratering...
25 February 2018
Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury & Gemini – A Rare Photographic History
... to the posed publicity shots it’s nice to see John Glenn in cleanroom gear seriously studying spacecraft manuals with Mercury capsules behind him; Jim Lovell’s cheeky grin as he uses his key to enter the private crew quarters...
