mercury program

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   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”

   Broaderspace program

Questions about mercury program

What does mercury program mean?

mercury program means "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".

Is mercury program a common word?

mercury program is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.