Project Mercury
Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were ...
Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted 20 uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six ...
What was the Mercury Program? | National Air and Space Museum
Known as America's “man-in-space” program, Project Mercury's aim was to put a man in orbit, understand the technical requirements and medical effects, and bring ...
Project Mercury History - March to the Moon
Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were ...
The Mission of Project Mercury is to instill Innovation Culture, Competency, and Community within the Air and Space Forces in order to outpace any and all peer ...
In the Beginning: Project Mercury - NASA
Project Mercury's manned flights spanned just two years – from May 1961 to May 1963 – making history with its six missions launched from Cape Canaveral.
Mercury | Missions & Facts - Britannica
Mercury, any of the first series of crewed spaceflights conducted by the United States (1961–63). The series began with a suborbital flight.
Mercury program | National Air and Space Museum
Project Mercury was the United States' first program to put people in space. Beginning in 1958 and completed in 1963, the program made six crewed flights ...
Mercury Program Galleries - March to the Moon
Initiated in 1958 and completed in 1963, Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six ...
Project Mercury: The First Americans in Space - YouTube
Project Mercury taught NASA a lot about getting people off the surface of Earth and into orbit, and paved the way for all of their future ...
Project Mercury: America's 1st Crewed Space Program
Mercury was a NASA program to prove that astronauts could function effectively in space for minutes to hours at a time.
Project Mercury: NASA's Man-in-Space Initiative
Project Mercury ran from 1958 to 1963, cost $277M in contemporary dollars (almost $2.2B today) and involved the work of two million people.
Project Mercury | FSHD Society
By 2025, Project Mercury aims to build a global cohort of 10,000 clinical-trial-ready, well-characterized patients; expand and optimize the world-wide clinical ...
Project Mercury: America's First Space Explorers
Project Mercury: America's First Space Explorers · 1958 Project Mercury is initiated · April 10, 1959 Astronauts introduced in a press ...
Project Mercury - Space Patches
Shop our collection of embroidered Project Mercury patches — Initiated by NASA from 1958-1963 — United States' 1st Man-In-Space program.
Project Mercury | American Experience - PBS
Mercury-Atlas 8. October 3, 1962. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra spent nine hours in Earth orbit, successfully proving human beings could be in a state of ...
The Mercury Project – Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The Mercury Project will fund researchers to discover new, evidence-based, data-driven tools, methods, and interventions to counter mis- and ...
Project Mercury – Schifferbooks
Project Mercury was America's entry into the manned spaceflight program. When the program began in 1958, the Soviet Union was far ahead of the US in the ...
Project Mercury [4K] - YouTube
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America's first man-in-space program ran from 1958 to 1963 and was known as Project Mercury. Through Mercury, NASA sought to achieve three objectives.