Use these resources to view Web Articles:

1. Why do we explore space?

http://edspace.nasa.gov/bringhome/whyexplore.html

2.   Explore the Apollo Explorer web site. Learn about each Mercury flight. Photographs may also be found here.

http://apolloexplorer.co.uk/bymission.htm

3.  Learn about Mercury flights and Mercury astronauts:

http://thespaceplace.com/history/mercury2.html

4.  This Kennedy Space Center site provides information related to Mercury's goals, manned and unmanned missions, spacecraft and summary of the Mercury project.

http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mercury.htm

5.  How Project Mercury missions worked is the focus of this web site:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/mercury-mission.htm

6.  Get quick facts of Mercury flights at this site: (good source for creating game cards)

http://www1.umn.edu/scitech/assign/space/mercury_missions.html

7.  This site provides a summary of each Mercury mission along with pictures of Mercury patches:

http://seasky.org/spacexp/sky5c02.html

8.   Read about Astronaut John Glenn and the Friendship 7 Mission:

http://archives.gov/exhibit_hall/featured_documents/friendship_7_transcript/index.html

9.  Obtain information related to Project Mercury's costs:

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/app5.htm

10.  These are mission profiles for the Mercury flights:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/MERCR3.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/MERCR4.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-003A.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-019A.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-052A.html

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1963-015A.html

Use these resources to view photographs:

1.  This Image Archive chronicles the overall Project Mercury mission:

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/html/merc.htm

2.  View the images of the Manned Project Mercury mission in this directory:

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/html/mermanov.htm

3.  Images include porrtrait of seven original Mercury astronauts plus new members,

artist's drawings of various aspects of the Mercury flight, and Gemini/Titan-II launch vehicle #1 liftoff at Cape Kennedy, Florida.

http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/search/search.cgi

4.  View 17 pages images related to Project Mercury missions:

http://powerlink.no/galleries/mercury/mercury/

5.  Find archived photos of Project Mercury:

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/figures.htm