Project Mercury
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project-mercury-206-8201921
title:
Project Mercury
text:
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted 20 uncrewed developmental flights, and six successful flights by astronauts. The program, which took its name from Roman mythology, cost $2.68 billion. The as
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Initial American crewed spaceflight program (1958–1963)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury
date created:
2001-09-24T15:58:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T18:06:56Z
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