#74 At The Beginning Of The Space Race, Project Mercury Was NASA’s First Human Crewed Spaceflight Program, And It Was A Significant Step On The Road To The Moon. Let’s Dive Into The Vault And Check It Out. Cosmic Coffee Time With Andrew Prestage podcast

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#74 At the beginning of the space race, Project Mercury was NASA’s first human crewed spaceflight program, and it was a significant step on the road to the moon. Let’s dive into the vault and check it out.

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Back in the late 1950s, NASA was formed. Its first job was to put together a human crewed spaceflight program and put an astronaut into orbit - safely. This was Project Mercury. There were some uncrewed developmental flights and then six crewed flights between 1961 and 1963, this was an enormously significant step toward the Apollo moon landings just six years later.

So who were the Mercury astronauts and what was the mission profile of these first six crewed spaceflights?
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