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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 US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted 20 uncrewed…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Mercury | Cost | $277 million (1965) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Cost | $2.83 billion (adjusted for inflation) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Country | United States | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Crewed vehicle | Mercury capsule | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Duration | 1958–1963 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Failures | 3 (MA-1, MA-3, and MR-1) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | First crewed flight | Mercury-Redstone 3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | First crewed flight | May 5, 1961 (1961-05-05) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | First flight | Big Joe 1 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | First flight | September 9, 1959 (1959-09-09) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Last flight | Mercury-Atlas 9 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Last flight | May 15, 1963 (1963-05-15) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch sites | Cape Canaveral | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch sites | Wallops | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch vehicles | Atlas LV-3B | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch vehicles | Big Joe | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch vehicles | Blue Scout II | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch vehicles | Little Joe | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Launch vehicles | Mercury-Redstone | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Organization | NASA | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Partial failures | 1 (Big Joe 1) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Purpose | Crewed orbital flight | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Status | Completed | 1.00 | infobox |
| Project Mercury | Successes | 11 | 1.00 | infobox |
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