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But back at the beginning of America's space program, it looked like just about anybody could have done the job--and the overqualified men tasked to fly Project Mercury knew it. "I initially said ...

NASA had not yet put a man in orbit around the Earth. That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

starting with Project Mercury and continuing until the present. With these and other spacecraft in the pipeline, countless dreams of zero-gravity somersaults could soon become a reality—at least ...

This timeline highlights key manned and unmanned missions and tests of NASA’s Project Mercury. The primary objectives were to orbit a manned space vessel around Earth, investigate human ability ...

AT least 7 500 people at selected 11 mining sites in Zimbabwe are set to benefit from a project targeted at reducing mercury use by 4,85 tonnes in gold mining activities in the next five years.