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Keyword: Mercury program
![Старт миссии Меркурий-Редстоун-3](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/05/07/0001738193/6100884MR3_900.preview.jpg)
6.05.2021
Sixty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped space capsule was dubbed Freedom 7.
![Поверхность Меркурия](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/06/22/0001252328/mercurymulticolor_messenger_900.preview.jpg)
16.06.2011
The robotic MESSENGER spacecraft recently completed over 100 orbits of Mercury. Messenger's cameras have recorded detailed pictures utilizing eight different colors across visible and near infrared light, exploring the surface composition and looking for clues to the history and evolution of the solar system's innermost planet.
![50 лет назад: полёт "Свободы-7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2011/05/05/0001251565/freedom7redstone900.preview.jpg)
5.05.2011
Fifty years ago, near the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. His cramped space capsule was dubbed Freedom 7.
![Джон Гленн: от Дружбы 7 до Дискавери](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/12/0001199103/johnglenn62_nasa.preview.jpg)
28.10.1998
Rehearsing for his historic flight on February 20, 1962, Mercury program astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. works in a cramped training capsule preparing for a few hours' voyage through space. Dubbed Friendship...
!["Liberty Bell 7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/10/20/0001208811/libertybell7_rec_big.preview.jpg)
6.05.1999
Today, the space capsule Liberty Bell 7 rests about 3 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. But on July 21, 1961, astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom rode this tiny craft 118 miles above the Earth to become the second American in space.
![Шеппард на борту "Фридом-7"](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/05/05/0001167929/shepard_freedom7.preview.jpg)
5.05.2001
Forty years ago today (May 5, 1961), at the dawn of the space age, NASA controllers "lit the candle" and sent Alan Shepard arcing into space atop a Redstone rocket. The picture shows the pressure-suited Shepard before launch in his cramped space capsule dubbed "Freedom 7".
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