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Noun: Mercury program
  1. 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";
    - Project Mercury

Type of: space program

Encyclopedia: Mercury program

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