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Project Mercury Ends After Five-Year Space Program
NASA announces Project Mercury, Americas first man in space effort, ends after five years. Administrator James Webb says Gemini will continue crewed flight testing for moon missions with first Gemini flight anticipated in 1965. Mercury laid the groundwork for future exploration and featured early missions from Cape Canaveral with pilots Glenn Grissom Shepard Carpenter Cooper Schirra and Slayton.
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Sam
America
Strucgram
Howard Beneture
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Canaveral
X Ram
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Cape Canaveral
Howard Benedict
Fra
James E. Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Mercury
Webb
U.S
Redstone
McDonnell Aircraft Co
Space Agency
Chosen Seven
Marinee
John H. Glenn Jr
Air Force
Virgil J. Grissom
Navy
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Donald K. ‘Slayton
Wallops Island
Russia
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
Shepard
Atlantic Ocean
Grissom
Atlas
Enos
Glenn
Slayton
Carpenter
Schirra
Cooper