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Program archive
Project Mercury established that astronauts could launch, work in space, survive orbital flight, and return safely—creating the operational foundation for Gemini and Apollo.
Explore this program
Choose a path through the Project Mercury archive.
Follow every archived flight from the earliest development test through the program’s latest flown mission, with its defining milestones and mission hardware connected along the way.
The turning points that shaped this program and its legacy.
All 26 flown and non-flight archive records arranged chronologically.
Launch corridor
26 flights and tests compressed into 2 expandable arcs.