Mercury And Apollo Space Projects Project Mercury was the United States' first attempt to send humans into space. It began in 1958. The project had three main objectives: to orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth, to see how well humans fared in space, and to recover both the spacecraft and its crew safely. Project Mercury made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963. After the Soviet Union launched "Sputnik," the first artificial satellite, the United States decided to …showed first 75 words of 1376 total…

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