Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in ... - The Black Vault

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“Scientific Training for Pilots of Project Mercury,” March 27,
1959. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
I-22 George M. Low, Program Chief, Manned Space Flight, NASA,
Memorandum for Administrator, NASA, “Pilot Selection for
Project Mercury,” April 23, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
I-23 George M. Low, NASA, Memorandum for House Committee
on Science and Astronautics, “Urgency of Project Mercury,”
April 27, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
I-24 George M. Low, Program Chief, Manned Space Flight,
NASA Memorandum for Mr. R. R. Gilruth, Director, Project
Mercury, NASA, “Animal Payloads for Little Joe,” June 19,
1959, with attached Memorandum from T. K. G [T. Keith
Glennan] to George M. Low, June 15, 1959. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
I-25 NASA, “Information Guide for Animal Launches in Project
Mercury,” July 23, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
I-26 A. J. Goodpaster, Brigadier General, USA, Memorandum of
Conference with the President, September 29, 1959 . . . . . . . . . 145
I-27 Wernher von Braun, Director, Development Operations
Division, Army Ballistic Missile Agency, to Robert R. Gilruth,
Space Task Group, NASA, October 9, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
I-28 Mercury Astronauts, Memorandum For [Mercury] Project
Director, NASA, “Exchange of Visits with Russian Astronauts,”
October 21, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
I-29 Charles L. Wilson, Captain, USAF, ed., WADC Technical
Report 59-505, “Project Mercury Candidate Evaluation
Program,” December 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
I-30 John Glenn, Mercury Astronaut, NASA, to Lieutenant
Commander Jim Stockdale, USN, December 17, 1959 . . . . . . . . 158
I-31 Robert B. Voas, NASA Space Task Group, “Project Mercury
Astronaut Training Program,” May 26, 1960 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
I-32 Abe Silverstein, Director of Space Flight Programs, NASA,
Memorandum for Administrator, NASA, “Astronaut Selection
Procedure for Initial Mercury-Redstone Flights,” December
14, 1960. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
I-33 Jerome B. Wiesner, The White House, Memorandum for
Dr. [McGeorge] Bundy, “Some Aspects of Project Mercury,”
March 9, 1961. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
I-34 “Report of the Ad Hoc Mercury Panel,” April 12, 1961 . . . . . . . 177