Mercury
Links
How Project Mercury Missions Worked
http://www.howstuffworks.com/mercury-mission.htm
Mission overviews with photographs. Also includes a more detailed article on "How Project Mercury Worked."
Mercury Atlas 6
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-003A.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
Mercury Atlas 7
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-019A.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
Mercury Atlas 8
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1962-052A.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
Mercury Atlas 9
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/1963-015A.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
Mercury Redstone 3
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/MERCR3.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
Mercury Redstone 4
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/MERCR4.html
Spacecraft and mission profile from the National Space Science Data Center.
Project Mercury
http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mercury-overview.htm
Provides a history of the goals, history, and technology of America's first manned space program. Includes links to a detailed image gallery, technical reports, diagrams, mission summaries, and crew biographies.
Project Mercury: A Chronology
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4001/cover.htm
NASA book detailing all aspects of Project Mercury, including prior events, research and development, and mission operations.
Space Medicine in Project Mercury
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4003/cover.htm
A history of the medical support program during the Mercury program. Discusses the origins of space medicine and its impact on the selection of astronauts and spacecraft life-support systems.