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Mercury program
(redirected from Project Mercury)

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Noun1.Mercury program - a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earthMercury program - a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth; "under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut"
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The movie focusws on the first seven American astronauts selected for the US Project Mercury space programme and their test pilot counterparts from Edwards Air Force base.
FILMS OF THE DAY by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
NASA initiated Project Mercury in 1958, and in 1961, Alan Shepard took off from the Florida site as the United States' first astronaut.
Kennedy Space Center: Gateway to Space by Science News
The single-manned Project Mercury was America's first attempt back in the early 60s.
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