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GORDON COOPER'S INTERNAL DOCUMENT FROM LANGLEY FIELD, VA, SIGNED INCLUDED IS COOPER'S 7 PAGE MERCURY ASTRONAUT BIOGRAPHIES DOCUMENT
Project Mercury Bioscience Data Plan, NASA Project Working Paper No. 164.
Project Mercury Bioscience Data Plan, NASA Project Working Paper No. 164.
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GORDON COOPER'S INTERNAL DOCUMENT FROM LANGLEY FIELD, VA, SIGNED
INCLUDED IS COOPER'S 7 PAGE MERCURY ASTRONAUT BIOGRAPHIES DOCUMENT
Project Mercury Bioscience Data Plan, NASA Project Working Paper No. 164. Langley Field: NASA Space Task Group, December 1, 1960. 10½ x 8 inches. 9 pp. Cream card stock covers, punched. Internal distribution copy with manuscript "C. 23" (Copy 23) written at the upper right hand corner. SIGNED at the upper right hand corner: "Cooper" by Gordon Cooper in 1960 upon receiving this copy.
Cooper had particular interest in this subject because his flight was the longest of the Mercury Program, some 34 hours in space. Manned space exploration covered not only observations about the unexplored reaches beyond the Earth's atmosphere but physical and mental reactions to man within this environment. The document describes plans for physiological and psychological measurements during the prelaunch, flight, and post flight periods. An operational overview of the Mercury spacecraft environmental control system is included plus the method to record astronaut biomedical data.
ADDITIONALLY: Biographies, Project Mercury Astronauts. Washington, DC: NASA, May 1961. 10½ x 8 inches. 7 pp. Cream card stock covers, punched.
Issued just prior Alan Shepard's first manned Mercury flight and contains a full one page biography on each of the seven Mercury astronauts in alphabetical order: Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton. Date of birth, educational background, military service, and family information are some of the biographical information included.
BOTH documents are INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "My Personal Copy, GORDON COOPER" on the front cover page.
Project Mercury Bioscience Data Plan, NASA Project Working Paper No. 164. Langley Field: NASA Space Task Group, December 1, 1960. 10½ x 8 inches. 9 pp. Cream card stock covers, punched. Internal distribution copy with manuscript "C. 23" (Copy 23) written at the upper right hand corner. SIGNED at the upper right hand corner: "Cooper" by Gordon Cooper in 1960 upon receiving this copy.
Cooper had particular interest in this subject because his flight was the longest of the Mercury Program, some 34 hours in space. Manned space exploration covered not only observations about the unexplored reaches beyond the Earth's atmosphere but physical and mental reactions to man within this environment. The document describes plans for physiological and psychological measurements during the prelaunch, flight, and post flight periods. An operational overview of the Mercury spacecraft environmental control system is included plus the method to record astronaut biomedical data.
ADDITIONALLY: Biographies, Project Mercury Astronauts. Washington, DC: NASA, May 1961. 10½ x 8 inches. 7 pp. Cream card stock covers, punched.
Issued just prior Alan Shepard's first manned Mercury flight and contains a full one page biography on each of the seven Mercury astronauts in alphabetical order: Carpenter, Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton. Date of birth, educational background, military service, and family information are some of the biographical information included.
BOTH documents are INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "My Personal Copy, GORDON COOPER" on the front cover page.