Project Mercury
Mercury Crewed Flights (1961-1963)
- Mercury Redstone 3 -- May 5, 1961 -- Spacecraft: Freedom 7 -- Astronaut: Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
- Mercury Redstone 4 -- July 21, 1961 -- Spacecraft: Liberty Bell 7 -- Astronaut: Virgil I. Grissom
- Mercury Atlas 6 -- February 20, 1962 -- Spacecraft: Friendship 7 -- Astronaut: John H. Glenn, Jr.
- Mercury Atlas 7 -- May 24, 1962 -- Spacecraft: Aurora 7 -- Astronaut: M. Scott Carpenter
- Mercury Atlas 8 -- October 3, 1962 -- Spacecraft: Sigma 7 -- Astronaut: Walter M. Schirra
- Mercury Atlas 9 -- May 15-16, 1963 -- Spacecraft: Faith 7 -- Astronaut: L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
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Popular Magazines
- Readers' Guide Retrospective (H.W. Wilson - EBSCOhost) (1890-1982) This link opens in a new windowReaders’ Guide Retrospective™: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature™. This important resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.
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Popular magazines for which the UCF Libraries lacks issues covering 1961-1963:
- Newsweek
- Aviation Week & Space Technology (1922+)Call Number: UCF Main Library -- TL501 .A8
- National Geographic Virtual Library (1888+) This link opens in a new windowA complete archive of National Geographic magazine containing every page of every issue in full color along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos
- U.S. News & World Report (1948+)Call Number: UCF Main Library Microfilm -- JK1 .U65
Newspapers
- Atlanta ConstitutionCall Number: Newspaper Microfilm filed by titleJun 17, 1868-Dec 30, 1879; 1950+
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- New York Times, Historical (ProQuest) (1851-2020) This link opens in a new windowComplete text and images of the New York Times.
- San Francisco ChronicleCall Number: Newspaper Microfilm -- all issues filed by title San Francisco ChronicleJanuary 16, 1865-December 31, 1983
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Some newspaper articles and editorials may be available in the Congressional Record, available full text in the ProQuest Congressional Database. For example, the scanned pages from the Congressional Index identify the subject "Outer Space" and list the Congressional Record page numbers for articles and editorials that members of Congress read into the record from their home state newspapers.
- Outer Space - 1961 index of articles and editorials in Congressional Record87th Congress, 1st Session
Sessional Indexes to the Congressional Record, volume 107 - Outer Space - 1962 index of articles and editorials in Congressional Record87th Congress, 2nd Session
Sessional Indexes to the Congressional Record, volume 108 - Outer Space - 1963 index of articles and editorials in Congressional Record88th Congress, 1st Session
Sessional Indexes to the Congressional Record, volume 109, part 2
- ProQuest Congressional (1789+) This link opens in a new window
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access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress, including full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward.
