Project mercury

Project Mercury

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  • Project Mercury Is Born

    Project Mercury Is Born
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    The Project Mercury program starts in 1958. It becomes the United States first man-in-space program.They had 2 goals: putting a human in orbit around the Earth, and doing it before the Soviet Union, as part of the early space race. It succeeded in the first but not the second.

  • Little Joe 4

    Little Joe 4
    A monkey Sam was sent into space on December 4, 1959 on Little Joe (4). This mission was successful with a weightless time of 3 minutes and 13 seconds.

  • FREEDOM 7

    FREEDOM 7
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    They accomplished one of two of their goals of putting a human in orbit around the Earth on May 5, 1961 on FREEDOM 7 by Alan B. Shepard, Jr. this suborbital flight successfully put the first american in space.

  • LIBERTY BELL 7

    LIBERTY BELL 7
    Virgil I. Grissom went up on LIBERTY BELL 7. This successful flight sank shortly after splashdown.

  • FRIENDSHIP 7

    FRIENDSHIP 7
    John H. Glenn, Jr. made a 3 orbit flight that placed the first American into orbit on FRIENDSHIP 7