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What is Mercury spacecraft?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Project Mercury was the first U.S. human spaceflight program, running from 1959 - 1963. Its aim was to put a human in orbit around the Earth. This was achieved by the Mercury Atlas 6 flight on February 20, 1962.

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