I wonder how much this capsule cost, never to be flown? But where would we be without pioneer projects like Mercury, stuck on the ground no doubt.💯🚀🚀👍4
Good question! I Googled it and found the spacecraft (capsules only) for the program were about 135.3 million or over 1.4 billion today. No problem, though. My parents paid for it. 😅
It isn't easy to keep track of all the technology that happened in the 1960s. The space race, though, was of great interest to kids my age. We wrote letters to NASA, and they would send photos of the rockets, capsules, and astronauts back to us. I had a chance to eat " space food" as one of my schoolmate's dads worked in research and development at Whirlpool Corporation. It's pretty cool stuff for an elementary school kid. I have been interested ever since. 🚀🛸
I wonder how much this capsule cost, never to be flown? But where would we be without pioneer projects like Mercury, stuck on the ground no doubt.💯🚀🚀👍4
Good question! I Googled it and found the spacecraft (capsules only) for the program were about 135.3 million or over 1.4 billion today. No problem, though. My parents paid for it. 😅
Project mercury cougar
I always favored the '68 MERCURY Couger XR-7. 😎 I think I just dated myself. 😪
@whatsupwithrichard my first car was a 82 Ford Fairmount
All these is complicated to me, but I hope with time, I will understand stuff about space. Quite a unique subject.👌🥰
It isn't easy to keep track of all the technology that happened in the 1960s. The space race, though, was of great interest to kids my age. We wrote letters to NASA, and they would send photos of the rockets, capsules, and astronauts back to us. I had a chance to eat " space food" as one of my schoolmate's dads worked in research and development at Whirlpool Corporation. It's pretty cool stuff for an elementary school kid. I have been interested ever since. 🚀🛸
@whatsupwithrichard 😊