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Project Mercury Join us today as we learn about the first astronauts who orbited the Earth in the Project Mercury program.
Sources:
This New Ocean - Ch6-8
https://www.space.com/24638-project-mercury.html
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-rocket-k4.html
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