Project Mercury Spacecraft is Complicated Mechanism

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Project Mercury Spacecraft is Complicated Mechanism

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This is the second of series of twelve articles entitled, First U.S. Man in Orbit. This article is written by James Upton, a writer of articles on science, engineering and medicine.

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Project Mercury (U.S.)

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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...