Project Mercury
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MEDAL SETS |
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GALAXY MINT MEDAL SET 1 FRONT |
GALAXY MINT MEDAL SET 1 BACK |
MEDALS | |
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This official NASA medal is the very limited edition Mercury 40th anniversary medal. Only 2500 of these medals were struck and it contains metal from the launch pad used in the Mercury missions. |
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The X-15 program was a rocket propelled aircraft launched from under the wing of a bomber. It allowed pilots to experience high excelleration and weightlessness as it flew at the edge of space. Its pilots included Neil Armstrong (Gemini8 and Apollo 11) and Joe Engle (Shuttle STS-2 and STS-51I).
This medal was issued to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first flight of the X-15 rocket plane. |
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This "International Aerospace hall of Fame" Cloisonne medallion medal shows the NASA logo worn by the seven members of Project Mercury. |
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Here we have a "Project Mercury Manned Space Flight" Alan B Shepard Mercury 3 medal from the "coin of the month club". It was supplied in a pouch saying Sterling silver, but this example looks to me to be cupra-nickel. |
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Here is a second "Project Mercury Manned Space Flight" coin of the month club. This one also appears to be cupra-nickel, and is issued to commemorate John Glenn Mercury 6 flight. |
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Larger than the two medals above, this attractive Project Mercury Friendship-7 medal features the Gemini 7 logo on the back. |
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From the same series as the Friendship-7 medal above, this is the Project Mercury Sigma-7 medal. |
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This is a retrospective Charleston Mint medal commemorating John Glenn's Mercury 6 flight. It is marked "John F Kennedy Space Center"/"NASA" and is serialised "5034" which is the same as an Apollo 17 and Shuttle STS-1 medal on other pages. The Apollo 11 medal from the same series includes a COA. |
