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Definition of Mercury program
1. Noun. A program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth. "Under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mercury Program
Literary usage of Mercury program
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Space Flight: The First Thirty Years (1993)
"This was the highest flight of the mercury program, with an apogee of 283.24
kilometers, but Schirra later claimed to be unimpressed with space scenery as ..."
2. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"... be needed "to establish whether there are any valid scientific [emphasis added]
reasons for extending manned spaceflight beyond the mercury program. ..."
3. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"The official history of the mercury program is Swenson, Grimwood, and Alexander,
This New Ocean. For the NASA history of Gemini, see James M. Grimwood and ..."
4. Space Handbook: A War Fighter's Guide to Space by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"... national space policy).54 NASA's first major project, the mercury program,
began as a result of the 1958 Space Task Group recommendations.55 Mercury, ..."
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