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Mercury program

mer·cu·ryp·rogram

uncommon

noun

1.

a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth

  • “under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut”
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