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The Mercury Missions |
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The Mercury Missions were the first US missions
to send a human into space. With their small little spacecraft they were
able to achieve the first steps to human space exploration.
The first Mercury capsules were not designed with windows. It took the
Astronauts of the time to request adding a window before it was even
considered.
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Mercury Program This
web site offers detailed information about what the Mercury Missions
were, when they flew and who flew on them. Project Mercury began
on October 7, 1958, one year and three days after the Soviet Union launched
Sputnik 1 and was the United States' first manned space program.
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Kennedy
Space Center Mercury Information page. Mercury Goals,
Mercury Overview,
Mercury Spacecraft,
Mercury Flight Summary,
Mercury Missions,
Mercury Launch Movie,
JSC's Mercury Image Directory,
A History of Project Mercury
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How
Stuff Works Gemini Page Did you ever want to know how the Project
Mercury missions worked. This site has great details on the
Merucry Missions
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Project
Mercury NASA InformationThe
United States' first manned space flight project was successfully
accomplished in a 4 2/3 year period of dynamic activity which saw more
than
2,000,000 people from many major government agencies and much
of the
aerospace industry combine their skills, initiative, and experience
into a
national effort.
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Astronomy
