mercury program

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Definition of mercury program in English English dictionary

a US government space programme designed to put human beings in orbit around the Earth. In its first successful flight, John Glenn made three orbits of the Earth in 1962 (1961-63)

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

Hyphenation

Mer·cu·ry pro·gram

Turkish pronunciation

mırkyıri prōgräm

Pronunciation

/ˈmərkyərē ˈprōˌgram/ /ˈmɜrkjɜriː ˈproʊˌɡræm/