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Manned Space Program Data Sheet
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Information
about various U.S. Manned Space Flights
Mercury
Program: Friendship 7
Launch Date: February 20, 1962
Crew: 1 (John Glenn)
Duration: 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds
Capsule: Conical 6 ft., 10 in. long by 6 ft., 2 1/2
in. in diameter.
Launch Vehicle: Atlas:
Stages:
1
Height:
82.5 ft.
Diameter:
10 ft.
Total
Thrust: 430,000 lb.
Gemini
Program: Gemini 12
Launch Date: August 23, 1966
Crew: 2 (James Lovell & Edwin Aldrin)
Duration: 3 Days, 22 hours, 34 min, 31 seconds
Capsule: Conical 7 ft., 6in. long by 10 ft. in diameter.
Launch Vehicle: Titan II:
Stages:
2
Height:
90 ft.
Diameter:
10 ft.
Total
Thrust: 530,000 lb.
Apollo
Program: Apollo 11 (Columbia and Eagle)
Launch Date: July 16, 1969
Crew: 3 (Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin
E. Aldrin, Jr.)
Duration: 8 days, 3 hours, 18 minutes
Capsule: Conical 10 ft., 7 in. long by 12 ft., 10
in. in diameter.
Launch Vehicle: Saturn V:
Stages:
3
Height:
363 ft.
Diameter:
33 ft.
Total
Thrust: 8,990,000 lb.
Shuttle
Program: Discovery STS-95
Launch Date: October 29, 1998 2:00 p.m. EST (Estimated).
Crew: 7 (Curtis L. Brown, Steven W. Lindsey, Scott
E. Parazynski, Stephen K. Robinson, Pedro Duque,
Chiaki Mukai, John H. Glenn)
Duration: 8 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes. (Estimated)
Orbiter: Crew compartment 2,625 cubic feet.
Launch Vehicle: Shuttle, external tank, and two
solid rocket boosters:
Stages:
1
Height:
184.2 ft.
Total
Thrust: 6,993,800 lb.
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