The Mercury missions lasted from 1958 to 1963. Mercury-Atlas 7 was a Mercury program space mission. It launched on May 24, 1962. The Mercury 7 were the initial astronauts chosen for the Mercury missions. Scott Carpenter (who was the astronaut on Mercury-Atlas 7), L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Donald K. "Deke" Slayton.
Mercury Friendship 7 traveled into Earthorbit in space.
The first American satellite (space ship) was Explorer I, launched in 1958.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American astronaut to fly in space on May 5, 1961, in a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 which was launched from a Redstone rocket.
Yes, the only other spacecraft to land on Mercury besides Mariner 10 is NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft, which successfully orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015. MESSENGER had a planned impact on Mercury's surface at the end of its mission.
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Freedom 7 was the name of Alan Shepard's Mercury capsule when he became the First American and the second person to enter space on the 5th May 1961. In January 1971, Shepard returned to space aboard the Kitty Hawk Apollo 14 spacecraft which took him and his two fellow astronauts to the moon.
Freedom 7
The space capsules used in Project Mercury were named Freedom 7, Liberty Bell 7, Friendship 7, Sigma 7, Faith 7, and Aurora 7. These capsules carried astronaut pioneers such as Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter on their historic missions.
Mercury Freedom 7, carrying Alan Shepard, was the first launch of a human astronaut by the US and the second launch of a human into space.
The capsule in the Mercury space program was designed by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. It was known as the Mercury spacecraft, or "Freedom 7" for the first manned flight with Alan Shepard in 1961.
On 5 May, 1961 Alan Shepherd was launched on a sub-orbital flight into space aboard Freedom 7, the first manned mission of Project Mercury.
Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American astronaut to fly in space on May 5, 1961, in a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7. Virgil I. Grissom, was the second American to fly in space on July 21, 1961 in a Mercury capsule named Liberty Bell 7. Both capsules were launched on Redstone rockets.