Space Task Group

Could the launch system reliably deliver that passenger and bring the capsule home? That answer was harder.

The Space Task Group at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reviewed the results and chose another unmanned test before placing Alan Shepard inside the spacecraft.

the booster would have to prove itself again for the engineers caution now had a human consequence because every unresolved fault represented a problem that could become fatal inside a crude capsule that additional flight became mercury redstone bd an uncrewed test intended to examine the redstone modifications after the problems exposed by ham's mission Preparation consumed more time and shepherds launch moved deeper into the spring for the American program those weeks carried an unusual cost.

engineers were gaining information, while the Soviet Union was already preparing its own first human flight the schedule had become part of the competition.

The Russians do manage to beat us into space, which lights a fire under the ass of every department head at NASA.

The Space Task Group was a team of engineers created in 1958.

They were tasked with managing America's human spaceflight programs, including Project Mercury and later the Apollo program.

Space Task Group is run by Al Harrison.

He's played by Kevin Costner.

Al's team is under immense pressure.

And look what he's accomplished.

He asks her, if you were a white male, would it be your wish to be an engineer? And Mary replies, I'd already be one.