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Use the information in the slides to create a TEAM poster…just like your homework!

Use the information in the slides to create a TEAM poster…just like your homework! (80 pts) listing the eight most important facts and accomplishments of this project. (5 pts) Include a hand drawing of the insignia. (5 pts) Include a hand drawing of the rocket

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Use the information in the slides to create a TEAM poster…just like your homework!

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  1. Use the information in the slides to create a TEAM poster…just like your homework! (80 pts) listing the eight most important facts and accomplishments of this project. (5 pts) Include a hand drawing of the insignia. (5 pts) Include a hand drawing of the rocket (10 pts) Give it a title…the project’s name Be sure to make the writing easy to read…and colorful!

  2. Project Mercury Mercury’s insignia! • Was the USA’s first rocket to go into space. • Carried chimpanzees Ham and Enos into space. • Carried 1st astronaut Alan Shepardinto space. • Flew John Glenn around the earth three times • Carried first American astronaut to stay in space for over 24 hours: Leroy Cooper • Capsule size is small, only about six feet across the bottom! • The capsule only weighed about 3,000 pounds! That’s less than one car!

  3. Kind of cramped inside!

  4. Only needed 3 small engines to lift off Smallest rocket NASA flew into space

  5. Landing: Splashdown

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