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Project Mercury

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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Cost
$277 million (1965) · $2.83 billion (adjusted for inflation)
Country
United States
Crewed vehicle
Mercury capsule
Duration
1958–1963
Failures
3 (MA-1, MA-3, and MR-1)
First crewed flight
Mercury-Redstone 3 · May 5, 1961 (1961-05-05)

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Creation

Spacecraft

Launch vehicles

Astronauts

Mission profile

Ground control

Flights

Legacy

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Project Mercury

Nodes261
Edges260
Triples368
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007663
Components1

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Project Mercury

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related to Bibliography · 123
Project Mercury → Advances, Alexander, American Heritage, American Heritage Publishing, American Physilogy Society, Apollo, Archived, Armstrong, Asif, Bantam Books, Berkley Books, Beyond, Cassutt, Catchpole, Challenge To Apollo, Chapter One, Chichester, Chronology, Cockpit, Cold War
related to Contractors and facilities · 54
Project Mercury → Air Force, Alabama, Alamogordo, American, Astronaut, Atlantic Missile Range, Atlas, Both Navy, California, Cape Canaveral, Cape Canaveral Air Force, Chrysler Corporation, Cleveland, Cocoa Beach, Control Center, Convair, Florida, For, From, Goddard Space Center
related to Selection and training · 51
Project Mercury → After, Although Armstrong, Apollo, Armstrong, At, Brig Gen, By, Capt, Chuck Yeager, Civilian NASA X-15, Col, Command, During, From, Furthermore, Gemini, He, In, Initially, It
related to Organization · 26
Project Mercury → Administrator, Defense Production Act, Deputy, Director, Dryden, DX, Earth, Existing, Glennan, Hugh, In, Keith Glennan, May, Mercury, NACA, NASA, NASA's Space Task Group, National Aeronautics, October, President Eisenhower
related to Suborbital flight · 21
Project Mercury → Atlas, Atlas-D, Beyond, Both, Braun's, German V-2, Huntsville, IRBM, It, Its, Juno II, Jupiter, Mercury, North American Aviation, Redstone, Redstone Arsenal, The Jupiter, The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, They, US Army
related to Creation · 14
Project Mercury → Air Force Man, December, Greek Atlas, Instead, It, Mercury, October, Originally, PGM-19, President Dwight Eisenhower, Project Astronaut, Roman Jupiter, SM-65, Space Soonest
related to External links · 10
Project Mercury → Archived November, Internet Archive, Mercury, NASA Project Mercury, Project Mercury Drawings, Project MercuryPDFs, Technical Diagrams Archived July, United States Project Mercury, Wayback Machine The Astronauts, Wayback MachineSpace Medicine In
related to Commemorations · 9
Project Mercury → Cape Canaveral, In, Launch Complex, Mercury, Mercury-Atlas, This, United States Postal Service, US, US Postage
related to Launch escape system testing · 9
Project Mercury → Atlas-D, It, Its, Little Joe, Mercury, NACA, North American Aviation, Scout, The Little Joe
related to Canceled · 8
Project Mercury → Jupiter, Mercury, Mercury-Jupiter, Nine, October, On July, The Mercury-Jupiter, Two

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Project MercuryCost$277 million (1965)1.00infobox
Project MercuryCost$2.83 billion (adjusted for inflation)1.00infobox
Project MercuryCountryUnited States1.00infobox
Project MercuryCrewed vehicleMercury capsule1.00infobox
Project MercuryDuration1958–19631.00infobox
Project MercuryFailures3 (MA-1, MA-3, and MR-1)1.00infobox
Project MercuryFirst crewed flightMercury-Redstone 31.00infobox
Project MercuryFirst crewed flightMay 5, 1961 (1961-05-05)1.00infobox
Project MercuryFirst flightBig Joe 11.00infobox
Project MercuryFirst flightSeptember 9, 1959 (1959-09-09)1.00infobox
Project MercuryLast flightMercury-Atlas 91.00infobox
Project MercuryLast flightMay 15, 1963 (1963-05-15)1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch sitesCape Canaveral1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch sitesWallops1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch vehiclesAtlas LV-3B1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch vehiclesBig Joe1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch vehiclesBlue Scout II1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch vehiclesLittle Joe1.00infobox
Project MercuryLaunch vehiclesMercury-Redstone1.00infobox
Project MercuryOrganizationNASA1.00infobox
Project MercuryPartial failures1 (Big Joe 1)1.00infobox
Project MercuryPurposeCrewed orbital flight1.00infobox
Project MercuryStatusCompleted1.00infobox
Project MercurySuccesses111.00infobox

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