This New Ocean Foreword

Foreword
Preface

Part One - Research

The Lure, the Lock, the Key
Exploring the Human Factor
Aeronautics to Astronautics: NACA Research
From NACA to NASA

Part Two - Development

Specifications for a Manned Satellite
From Design into Development
Man-Rating the Machines
Machine-Rating the Men
From Development into Qualification: Flight Tests
Tests Versus Time in the Race for Space

Part Three - Operations

Suborbital Flights into Space
Final Rehearsal
Mercury Mission Accomplished
Climax of Project Mercury
Epilogue

Note on Sources
Persons Interviewed
Bibliographies
Appendices

This New Ocean

A History of Project Mercury

by Loyd S. Swenson Jr., James M. Grimwood, and Charles C. Alexander

Published as NASA Special Publication-4201 in the NASA History Series, 1989.