- Year
- 1961
- By
- NASA
- Provenance
- Cape Canaveral Press Room letterhead, credited to O. B. Lloyd, Director of the Office of Public Information.
- Section
- Mercury
- Shelf
- Box 5
- Catalog
- Catalog F · NASA Missions
NASA press kit for Mercury-Redstone 3, the first American manned spaceflight (Alan Shepard, May 5 1961). Cover sheet dated April 26 1961, addressed to editors ahead of the embargoed release, listing the kit’s eleven sections; section 8, “‘IF’ A Study of Contingency Planning for the Project Mercury Mission,” reproduces the booklet catalogued separately below.
