On May 15, 1963, NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper launched on the sixth and final crewed flight of the Mercury Program. This was ...

The Thermostat Recycling Corporation and the Product Stewardship Institute Inc. jointly announced the nationwide rollout of mercury thermostat recycling program via local household hazardous waste ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park was one of four parks in the eastern U.S. where the Dragonfly Mercury Project got its start. Easier to catch and cheaper to test than fish, dragonfly larvae can be ...

With 360-degree vision, bright-colored bodies that sparkle jewel-like in the sun, and acrobatic flight patterns reaching speeds of nearly 35 miles per hour, dragonflies are some of the more glamorous ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Project Mercury was the United States' first human spaceflight program. Delmas D. "Del" Burchfield (1926-2016) was an engineer at McDonnell ...

A University of Nevada, Reno researcher has been awarded a $250,000 contract to conduct a two-year research project to characterize mercury emissions to the atmosphere from areas of mining waste, the ...

Bellcomm, Inc Technical Library Collection, Accession XXXX-0093, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. In 1958, Project Mercury was selected as the first American manned space ...

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 ...