Mercury program

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A program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by the United States with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the Earth. Each Mercury flight carried one astronaut. The program ran from 1961 to 1963 and was named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger of the gods.

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notes for Mercury program

The first United States suborbital flight was made by Alan Shepard in 1961.

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In 1962, John Glenn made the first orbital flight by an American astronaut.

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How to use Mercury program in a sentence

She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
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The program has not made a final selection on which upgrades will actually be included in future versions of the F-35.
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In fact, according to F-35 program sources, the next software upgrades are not yet fully defined nor are they fully funded.
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According to the USDA, student participation began to fall, with 1.4 million students opting out of the lunch program entirely.
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But the program is just six weeks long, the Pentagon admitted Monday.
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These have canted bay windows below them, and their pediments are surmounted by figures representing Mercury and Athæne.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
But the day he planned to start was very cold—the mercury stood twenty-seven below zero.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.
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For in the whole program of peaceful socialism there is nothing wrong at all except one thing.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Nor was ever a better presentation made of the essential program of socialism.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock