PROJECT MERCURY

In addition to the Project Mercury worker memories envelopes, we gathered artifacts to be placed in a separate container that will also be opened in 2038. The artifacts all pertain to Project Mercury - most are contemporary to Project Mercury with a few items representing the year of the time capsule's closure. The artifacts range from actual Mercury hardware to a copy of John Glenn's hometown newspaper chronicling his 1962 flight. Upon the time capsule's opening, the materials will be placed on exhibit at the University of Central Florida... ChronoPoints is a component of the SENSEable Design Lab at the University of Central Florida's IST, School of Modeling, Simulation & Training, dedicated to digitally documenting historically significant structures and artifacts. Our mission is to record a structure's "life history" through the capture of digital data and by contextualizing it through contemporaneous photographs, documents, and oral histories of individuals associated with the..

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