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Mercury
Mercury may mean:
Science
Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system.
Mercury (element), the chemical element also called quicksilver.
Mercury (magazine), a popular astronomy magazine published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/mercury.html
Mercury (computer), developed in the early 1950s by Ferranti and University of Manchester computing department.
Project Mercury, an early American program for launching humans into space.
Good King Henry, a species of goosefoot also called ''mercury'' or ''English mercury''.
Culture
Mercury (mythology), messanger god from Roman mythology.
Mercury (album), the debut album of UK indie band ''Long-View''.
Freddie Mercury, the singer from the rock group ''Queen''.
Mercury Drug, the Philippine drug store chain.
Mercury Records, a commercial record label.
The Mercury, the newspaper published in Hobart, Australia.
Mercury dime, a coin preceding the current dime in the United States.
''Mercury, the Winged Messenger'' is a movement in Gustav Holst's ''The Planets'' suite.
Sailor Mercury, the codename of Ami Mizuno in the ''Sailor Moon'' franchise.
Joey Mercury, the stage name of professional wrestler Adam Birch.
Technology
Mercury (automobile), a marque of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.
Mercury (company), a software and consulting company.
Bristol Mercury, a 9-cylinder aircraft engine.
Mercury programming language
Mercury - SMS Sending Program, a program that sends Short Message Service messagess.
Mercury Communications, a now-defunct British telco.
Mercury outboard motors, a manufacturer of outboard motors for boats.
''Mercury memory'', kind of delay line memory, in use in the 1950's.
Places
Mercury (planet), the nearest planet to the Sun in the solar system.
Mercury, France,
Mercury
''Note'': Previous discussions on the page have been superseded by changes in software and are no longer relevant. In order to not confuse new readers, those discussions have been removed from the current page, but can be found in the page's history.
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E-6 Mercury
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''E-6 Mercury.''
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| Role | |
| Crew | | 22 |
| Dimensions |
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| Length | | 45.8 m |
| Wingspan | | 45.2 m |
| Height | | 12.9 m |
| Wing area | | |
| Weights |
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| Empty | | |
| Loaded | | 154,400 kg |
| Maximum take-off | | |
| Powerplant |
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| Engines | |
| Power | | Four CFMI CFM-56-2A-2 High bypass turbofans |
| Performance |
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| Maximum speed | | 960 km/h |
| Combat range | | |
| Ferry range | | |
| Service ceiling | | 12,200 m |
| Rate of climb | | |
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The Boeing IDS E-6 ''Mercury'' is a United States of America military aircraft. It operates as an airborne command post and communications centre, relaying instructions from the National Command Authority. Its role in relaying to the fleet ballistic missile submarines gives it the suffix
Mercury 4
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|Duration:||15 min 37 s
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|Number of
Orbits:||Suborbital
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|Apogee:||118.30 mi
190.39 km
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|Distance
Traveled:||302.07 mi
486.15 km
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|Maximum
velocity:||5,168 mph
8,317 km/h
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|Peak acceleration:||11.1 g (10.9 m/s²)
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|Mass:||1,286 kg
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!align="center" colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Gus Grissom
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Mercury 4 was a Mercury program manned space mission launched on July 21, 1961 using a Redstone rocket.
Its capsule was named "Liberty Bell 7" and performed a suborbital flight piloted by astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. It reached an altitude of over 118.26 miles (190 km) and traveled about 300 miles (480 km). The Redstone was MRLV-8 and the spacecraft was Mercury spacecraft # 11, the first one with a centerline window instead of two portholes.
Crew
Gus Grissom (flew on ''Mercury 4'' & ''Gemini 3'')
Backup Crew
John Glenn
Mission Parameters
Mass: 1286 kg
Maximum Altitude: 190.39 km
Range: 486.15 km
Launch Vehicle: Redstone rocket
Liberty Bell 7
Mercury spacecraft # 11, was designated to fly the second manned suborbital flight in October, 1961. It came off McDonnell's St. Louis production line in May 1960. Spacecraft # 11 was the first Mercury operational spacecraft with a centerline window. It was closer to the final orbital version than was Alan Shepard's Freedom 7.
Explosive hatch
Spacecraft # 11 also had a new explosive side hatch. This would allow an astronaut to exit the spacecraft quickly in the event of an emergency. Emergency personnel could also trigger the explosive hatch from outside the spacecraft by pulling on an external lanyard. The original exit procedure was to climb out through the antenna compartment, after
Mercury 8
Crew
Wally Schirra (flew on ''Mercury 8'', ''Gemini 6A'', & ''Apollo 7'')
Backup Crew
Gordon Cooper
Mission Parameters
Mass:1370 kg
Perigee: 153 km
Apogee: 285 km
Inclination: 32.5°
Period: 89 min
Splashdown
Mission Highlights
Mercury 8 was a Mercury program manned space mission launched on October 3, 1962. The capsule was named "Sigma 7" and completed six earth orbits piloted by astronaut Wally Schirra. It was the first flawless Mercury mission.
Schirra's was the first of two longer-duration Mercury missions. After Carpenter's flawed reentry, the emphasis returned to engineering rather than science (Schirra even named his spacecraft "Sigma" for the engineering symbol meaning "summation.") The six-orbit mission lasted nine hours and l3 minutes, much of which Schirra spent in what he called "chimp configuration," a free drift that tested the Mercury's autopilot system. Schirra also tried "steering" by the stars (he found this difficult), took photographs with a Hasselblad camera, exercised with a bungeecord device, saw lightning in the atmosphere, broadcast the first live message from an American spacecraft to radio and TV listeners below, and made the first splashdown in the Pacific. This was the highest flight of the Mercury program, with an apogee of 283.24 kilometers, but Schirra later claimed to be unimpressed with space scenery as compared to the view from high-flying aircraft. "Same old deal, nothing new," he told debriefers after the flight. Sigma 7 landed near the international date line in the Pacific Ocean, 275 miles (440 km) NE of Midway Island. The landing coordinates were near 32° 7' 30" N - 174° 45' W according to a chart in NASA publication SP-12 "Results of the Third U.S. Manned Orbital Space Flight, October 3, 1962" .
Mercury spacecraft # 16 - ''Sigma 7'', used in the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, is currently displayed
Mercury 9
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130 km SE
Midway Is. Pacific
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|Duration:||34 h 19 min 49 s
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|Number of
Orbits:||22
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|Distance
Traveled:||546,167 mi
878,971 km
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|Maximum
velocity:||17,547 mph
28,239 km/h
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|Peak acceleration:||7.6 g (75 m/s²)
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|Mass:||1,360.8 kg
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!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Gordon Coooper
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Crew
Gordon Cooper (flew on ''Mercury 9'' & ''Gemini 5'')
Backup Crew
Alan B. Shepard
Mission Parameters
Mass: 1,360.8 kg
Perigee: 161 km
Apogee: 267 km
Inclination: 32.5°
Period: 88.5 min
Splashdown
Mission Highlights
Mercury 9 was the last U.S. Mercury spaceflight manned space mission, launched on May 15, 1963 from Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The capsule was named Faith 7 and it completed 22 Earth orbits piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper. The Atlas rocket was #130-D, and the Mercury spacecraft was #20.
The flight of Sigma 7 had been so nearly perfect that some at NASA thought America should quit while it was ahead and make MA-8 the last Mercury mission, and not risk the chance of future disaster. They thought NASA had pushed the first-generation Mercury hardware far enough, and taking more chances on another longer mission were not warranted. They thought it was time to move on to the Gemini program.
Manned Spacecraft Center officials, however, believed that the Mercury team should be given the chance to test man in space for a full day. In September, 1962, NASA concluded negotiations with McDonnell to modify four Mercury spacecraft (#12, #15, #17 and #20) to a configuration that supported a one-day mission.
In November, 1962, Gordon Cooper was chosen to pilot the MA-9 mission and Alan Shepard was picked
Mercury 4
I can only find a launch time of 12:20 UTC -no seconds listed and so put landing at 15 min 37 sec. past that. Rmhermen 15:42, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)
:I found something saying it was exactly on the minute, but it was like such for Mercury 5 and Mercury 3 as well (especially when it seemed to have a conflicting time for Mercury 5), so I removed the exact time. I suppose it's fine as it is. -- Pipian
::On the REFERENCE list near the bottom of the Wikipedia Mercury 4 webpage is a reference manual link called - "Results Of The Second U.S. Manned Suborbital Spaceflight July 21, 1961 (NASA)". PDF Page 33 (manual page 31) of this reference lists MR-3 launch time as 9:34:13 e.s.t. and MR-4 launch time as 7:20:36 e.s.t. Rusty 20:12, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
"Mrs. Grissom was not invited to the White House as per the forming tradition with previous astronaut wives upon successful mission completion." Wasn't there only one astronaut (and hence only one wife) who had completed a successful mission at this stage (Shepherd in Mercury 3)? -R. fiend 17:58, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Mercury Seven
The Mercury Seven was the group of seven Mercury astronauts picked in April 1959. They are also referred to as the Original Seven.
Scott Carpenter - Mercury-Atlas 7 - Aurora 7
Gordon Cooper - Mercury-Atlas 9 - Faith 7, Gemini 5
John Glenn - Mercury-Atlas 6 - Friendship 7, Atlantis - STS-95
Virgil Grissom - Mercury-Redstone 4 - Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3 - Molly Brown, Apollo 1
Walter Schirra - Mercury-Atlas 8 - Sigma 7, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7
Alan Shepard - Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14
Donald Slayton - Apollo Soyuz Test Project
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