This is from a press kit detailing the first manned Mercury sub-orbital launch, Mercury-Redstone3. The material in the kit was issued by NASA to all news media for release Saturday April 29, 1961. It was written before the event took place and I have kept the tense as it is.

The kit contains eleven sections:

1. Mercury-Redstone 3
   
2. Astronaut observations and control tasks during manned Mercury flight.
   
3. Pilot preparation for the MR-3 flight.
   
4. MR-3 inside the pilot's cabin.
   
5. Mercury-Redstone launch vehicle.
   
6. MR-3 recovery operations.
   
7. Project Mercury Progress.
   
8. "IF" A study of contingency planning for the project Mercury mission.
   
9. Mercury-Redstone abort.
   
10. Astronaut biographies.
    
11. Astronaut training program summary.