PROJECT, "MERCURY" (USS BORIE DDE-704)

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PROJECT, "MERCURY" (USS BORIE DDE-704)

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1) AtoA HA MLS P2W-7 in flight, low over the water. F to P2) AtoA MS Aircraft in flight. F3) AtoA LA Aircraft in flight. G to F4) AtoA HA CU Aircraft in flight over the water. P5) AtoA CU Aircraft in flight. F6) AtoA CU Aircraft in flight over the water. F7) AtoG MS Looking down over the ocean surface. F8) AtoG CU Green trail in the water. F9) AtoG MLS Nose cone floating in the water leaving a green trail. F10) AtoA MS Aircraft flying across the bow of the USS BORIE (DDE-704).11) AtoG MS Side of the DDE. P12) AtoA MS Aircraft in flight; clouds in BE. G to F13) AtoA LA CU Aircraft in flight (SV). G to F14) AtoG LS Ship underway; aircraft in flight low over the water. P15) AtoG MS Nose cone floating in the water leaving a green trail. F16) AtoG CU Looking down over the ship. P17) AtoG LS Ship underway toward the nose cone. P18) AtoA MS Aircraft in flight over the water; ship in the water underway toward the nose cone. F to P19) AtoG LS Ship underway. P20) AtoG MS Nose cone floating in the water leaving a green trail as a marker. F21) AtoA LS Aircraft in flight. P22) AtoG MS Nose cone floating in the water. FtoP23) AtoG MLS Ship underway toward the nose cone. P24) AtoG MS Ship underway toward the nose cone. P25) AtoG MS LST undt. P26) AtoA LA MLS Aircraft in flight. P27) AtoG MS Ship moving up along the starboard side past the bow. G to F28) AtoG MLS Ship underway toward the nose cone. F to P29) AtoG MLS Ship underway. F

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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 U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...