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Friendship 7 Alan B. Shepard Virgil I. (“Gus”) Grissom John Glenn entering Friendship 7 Scott Carpenter, 1964 Wally Schirra launch of Faith 7 Friendship 7 (Top) U.S. astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., entering the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962, in preparation for launch. Riding into space atop a modified Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile (bottom), Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.
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Modified link of Web site: National Air and Space Museum - What was the Mercury Program? Aug 15, 2026
Add new Web site: IBM - Project Mercury. Feb 28, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - 'Mercury Rising' explores treacherous U.S. attempts to control space. Jan 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Arizona State University - March to the Moon - Project Mercury History. Jul 04, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - System Safety in Early Manned Space Program: A Case Study of NASA and Project Mercury (PDF). May 23, 2024
Add new Web site: Nature - Biomedical findings from NASA�s Project Mercury: a case series. Apr 12, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Biomedical findings from NASA�s Project Mercury: a case series. Dec 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Astronautix - Mercury. Jun 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Space.com - Project Mercury: America's 1st Crewed Space Program. Mar 23, 2023
Add new Web site: National Air and Space Museum - What was the Mercury Program? Feb 11, 2023
Changed “manned” to “crewed.” Changed “Feb. 20, 1962” to “February 20, 1962.” Jan 10, 2020
Add new Web site: NASA - Project Mercury. Nov 10, 2017
Videos of Friendship 7 launch, Mercury astronauts training, and zero-g airplane flight added. Sep 01, 2009
Table listing flights in Mercury program added. Jul 21, 2009
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Project Mercury Worked. Feb 11, 2009
Media added. Nov 06, 2008
Article revised. Feb 08, 1999
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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