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Project Mercury Goals
Initiated 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.
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