Mercury Program exhibit(closed)

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nitiated in 1958, completed in 1963, Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific:


To orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth;

To investigate man's ability to function in space;

To recover both man and spacecraft safely.
www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mercury-goals.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury
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Coordinates:   57°48'48"S   160°10'6"W
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