of which project was it a part during 1958 to 63?
Project Mercury
NASA
By 1958, the space plane concepts were eliminated in favor of the ballistic capsule, and NASA renamed it Project Mercury
from which profession is frank borman? He is a retired United States Air Force colonel, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, businessman, rancher, and NASA astronaut. do you know the full form of this acronym? National Aeronautics and Space Administration who formed it? UNANSWERABLE
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NASA [SEP] Project Mercury (1958–1963)
In 1958, NASA formed an engineering group, the Space Task Group, to manage their human spaceflight programs under the direction of Robert Gilruth. Their earliest programs were conducted under the pressure of the Cold War competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. NASA inherited the US Air Force's Man in Space Soonest program, which considered many crewed spacecraft designs ranging from rocket planes like the X-15, to small ballistic space capsules. By 1958, the space plane concepts were eliminated in favor of the ballistic capsule, and NASA renamed it Project Mercury. The first seven astronauts were selected among candidates from the Navy, Air Force and Marine test pilot programs.