Manned Space Flight Network
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The Manned Space Flight Network is a set of tracking stations that was built to support the American Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space programs.
Project Mercury MSFN stations
Recreation of Mercury Control Center
Maspalomas, Gran Canaria
Woomera in 1964
Project Mercury
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and retur
Manned Space Flight Network
…The Manned Space Flight Network (abbreviated MSFN, pronounced "misfin") is a set of tracking stations that was built to support the American Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space programs. There were two other NASA space communication networks at the time, the Spacecraft Tracking and Data…
Wallops Island test facility, 1961
Mercury Control Center, Cape Canaveral, 1963
Retropack: Retrorockets with red posigrade rockets
Landing skirt (or bag) deployment: skirt is inflated; on impact the air is pressed out (like an airbag)