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How the mercury planet discovered?
someone named howard Lynn discovered it in a rocket ship
Who was the father of the Apollo space project?
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.
What country launched its first space rocket January 1961?
On January 31, 1961, the United States launched the Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into space. A chimp named Ham was aboard the space rocket.
What is Project Gemini?
Project Gemini, originally named Mercury Mark II, was the second US space program. It was a bridge from project Mercury to the Apollo moon missions program. The spacecraft carried two people and tested rendezvous and docking.
What is mercury named after or for?
Mercury is named for hermes, Mercury is hermes roman name
Which god was the planet of Mercury named after?
the planet Mercury is named after the god... Mercury!
What is Mercury named for?
The planet Mercury was named after the fast-footed Roman messenger of the gods, Mercury.
Is Mercury named after Apollo?
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.
What is Mercury named after?
Mercury was named after Hermes, the Roman god of travel.
Why was Mercury named after a roman god?
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.
How was mercury named by other civilizations?
mercury was named by the Romans after a messenger god.
Was Mercury named for its high Mercury content?
NO.
