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| MAGYAR CÍM | Mercury-program | 2700 |
| ANGOL CÍM | Project Mercury | 5564 |
| NÉMET CÍM | Missionen des Mercury-Programms | 12072 |
| OROSZ CÍM | Программа «Меркурий» | 17401 |
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| Mercury-program - Project Mercury | ||
|---|---|---|
| General | NASA (organizer) • Space race (political background) • Space flight (scientific background) | |
| Missions |
Crewed | Freedom 7 (first suborbital flight) • Liberty Bell 7 • Friendship 7 (first orbital flight) • Aurora 7 • Sigma 7 • Faith 7 • Freedom 7 II (cancelled) |
| Uncrewed | LJ-1 • Big Joe 1 • LJ-6 • LJ-1A • LJ-2 • LJ-1B • Beach Abort • MA-1 • Little Joe 5 • MR-1 • MR-1A • MR-2 • MA-2 • LJ-5A • MR-BD • MA-3 • LJ-5B • MA-4 • MS-1 • MA-5 | |
| Astronauts | General | Mercury Seven |
| In order of flight | (In suborbit:) Alan Shepard • Gus Grissom • (In orbit:) John Glenn • Scott Carpenter • Wally Schirra • Gordon Cooper • (Did not fly:) Deke Slayton | |
| Equipment | Navy Mark IV (space suit) | |
| Test animals | Ham • Enos • (Background:) Animals in space | |
| Subprograms | Mercury-Atlas • Mercury-Redstone • Mercury-Scout • Big Joe • Mercury-Jupiter (cancelled) | |
| Contractors | McDonnell Aircraft Corporation (spacecraft) • Convair (Atlas rocket) • Chrysler (Redstone rocket) • North American Aviation (Little Joe rocket) | |
| Rockets | Atlas • Redstone • Blue Scout II • Little Joe • Jupiter (proposed) | |
| Launch sites and Control Center |
Wallops Island / Wallops Flight Facility • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 5 • Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 • Mercury Control Center | |
| Related programs |
US | Gemini (successor program) • Apollo (lunar program) |
| Soviet | Vostok (rival in space race) | |
| Other | Mercury 13 (non-NASA project inspired by Project Mercury) | |
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