Project Mercury

The effort, internally dubbed Project Mercury, would be a significant undertaking for the country's second-largest cable company, which has 14 million subscribers in major markets including New York City and Los Angeles.

Advertising Age - Homepage 2010

NASA was officially created on Oct. 1, 1958, but this month marks the 50th anniversary of how the space program started with Project Mercury.

NASA Watch: News: April 2009 Archives 2009

NASA was officially created on Oct. 1, 1958, but this month marks the 50th anniversary of how the space program started with Project Mercury.

NASA Watch: Marc Boucher: April 2009 Archives 2009

NASA's Project Mercury was quickly followed by a salvo of 10 human-carrying Gemini flights from March 1965 to November 1966.

Tortoise and Hare - the Chinese Space Programme Zoe Brain 2008

Very little simulation was necessary for Project Mercury, which had as its very specific objective the placement of a man in orbit and his return.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

In contrast to Project Mercury, wherein a small, one-person capsule traveled around the world for a few hours, a program to achieve a mission as complex as a manned Moon landing would have to be infinitely larger and more elaborate.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

In contrast to Project Mercury, wherein a small, one-person capsule traveled around the world for a few hours, a program to achieve a mission as complex as a manned Moon landing would have to be infinitely larger and more elaborate.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

Very little simulation was necessary for Project Mercury, which had as its very specific objective the placement of a man in orbit and his return.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

Very little simulation was necessary for Project Mercury, which had as its very specific objective the placement of a man in orbit and his return.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

In contrast to Project Mercury, wherein a small, one-person capsule traveled around the world for a few hours, a program to achieve a mission as complex as a manned Moon landing would have to be infinitely larger and more elaborate.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005