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someone named howard Lynn discovered it in a rocket ship
Abe Silverstein as chairman of the Silverstein Committee was in charge of organizing NASA, hired the initial engineers and scientists, was NASA's first director of space flight programs, planned Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Centaur rocket, was responsible for NASA adopting the liquid hydrogen rocket engine which is still in use today, and named Mercury and Apollo.
the first rocket was named V2 after the Nazi missle it was named by Dr. Von Braun and Walter Reildel
Mercury is named for hermes, Mercury is hermes roman name
On January 31, 1961, the United States launched the Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into space. A chimp named Ham was aboard the space rocket.
the planet Mercury is named after the god... Mercury!
The planet Mercury was named after the fast-footed Roman messenger of the gods, Mercury.
Mercury was named after Hermes, the Roman god of travel.
Mercury is not named after Apollo; it is actually named after the Roman god of mythology Mercury, who was the messenger of the gods. In Greek mythology, Mercury was known as Hermes.
Yes, the planet Mercury was named after the god Mercury. Mercury's other names are Thoth and Hermes (pronounced Her-meez).it wasn't named after a god it was named after a messenger when he found the planet in the sky so he named it mercury.
mercury was named by the Romans after a messenger god.
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