Mercury Mission (other)
Mercury mission may refer to: * Exploration of Mercury, a mission to the planet Mercury * Project Mercury, a mission of the NASA Mercury program See also * ''Mission to Mercury'', 1965 novel * Mercury (other) Mercury commonly refers to: * Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun * Mercury (element), a metallic chemical element with the symbol Hg * Mercury (mythology), a Roman god Mercury or The Mercury may also refer to: Companies * Mercury ...

Exploration Of Mercury
The exploration of Mercury has a minor role in the space interests of the world. It is the least explored inner planet.JHU/APL (2006)MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and RangingRetrieved on 2007-01-27 As of 2015, the '' Mariner 10'' and '' MESSENGER'' missions have been the only missions that have made close observations of Mercury. ''MESSENGER'' made three flybys before entering orbit around Mercury.Munsell Kirk-editor (November 6, 2006)NASA: Solar System Exploration: Missions to Mercury. Retrieved on 2007-01-27. A third mission to Mercury, ''BepiColombo'', a joint mission between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the European Space Agency, is to include two probes. ''MESSENGER'' and ''BepiColombo'' are intended to gather complementary data to help scientists understand many of the mysteries discovered by ''Mariner 10''s flybys. Compared to other planets, Mercury is difficult to explore. The speed required to reach it is relatively ...
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Project Mercury
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted 20 uncrewed developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The program, which took its name from Roman mythology, cost $ (adjusted for inflation). The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury Seven", and each spacecraft was given a name ending with a "7" by its pilot. The Space Race began with the 1957 launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1. This came as a shock to the American public, and led to the creation of NASA to expedite existing US space exploration efforts, and place most of them under civilian control. After the successful launch of the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958, crewed spacef ...
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Mission To Mercury
''Mission to Mercury'' is a juvenile science fiction novel, the ninth in Hugh Walters' ''Chris Godfrey of U.N.E.X.A.'' series. It was published in 1965 in the UK by Faber and in the US by Criterion Books. Also published under the name Missão Mercúrio in Portugal by Galeria Panorama. Plot summary The crewed expedition to Mercury is complicated by the fact that strong solar radiation makes communication with Earth impossible. U.N.E.X.A. decide that telepathy may be the answer. Telepathic twins Gill and Gail volunteer; one accompanying Chris Godfrey and the crew on the mission; the other remaining on Earth. As they near their objective, Gail notices increasingly disruptive personality changes in the crew caused by the radiation, their only chance of survival is to land on the 'dark' side of the planet; however the near absolute zero conditions lead to massive heat-loss. Can they be rescued before freezing to death... In the same year this book was published, radar observ ...
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