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Costly Mercury project yields data for future spaceflights
AP reports from Cape Canaveral on Project Mercury's high costs and enduring impact as it ends. Mercury lessons shape the Gemini program and Apollo plans, focusing on crew control, modular systems, and safer propulsion and power approaches for future missions.
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Mercury
Howard Benedict
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Project Mercury
Gemini
Con Navy
Malcolm Scott
Carpenter
Earth
Bae Dretty
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Jerome B. Hammack
Mercury National Aeronautics’ and Space
Dec
Project
Apollo
Robert Gilruth
Walter Williams
Chris Kraft
Alot
Jon
Charles A. Berry
Naut
Andre J