Sentence examples for mercury program from inspiring English sources

A chronology of spaceflights in the Mercury program is shown in the table.

In 1960, Mr. Kranz joined the Mercury program with the original task force at Langley Field, Va.

"The Right Stuff," Tom Wolfe's 1979 book, covers only the Mercury program, but it virtually defines astronaut culture.

The best astronauts from the cool-test-pilot days of the Mercury program do not necessarily make the best crew for exploring deep space.

CONVOCATION OF, 7 p.m.; HER SPACE HOLIDAY, 8 p.m.; CURSIVE, 9 p.m.; MERCURY PROGRAM, 10 p.m.; FAINT, 11 p.m.; TRISTEZA, midnight; BRIGHT EYES, 1 a.m., Westbeth Theater Center.

He's still wearing a flashy vest, just like the ones he wore for missions stretching from the initial Mercury program to today's space shuttle.

After joining the Mercury astronaut program, Slayton was grounded because he was found to have an irregular heartbeat.

That same week, the Illinois attorney general's office filed a lawsuit saying that Nicor's mercury removal program was violating environmental laws and endangering public health.

The magazine came to the same conclusion: With NASA's blessing, Life agreed to pay the astronauts of the Mercury space program $500,000 for the exclusive rights to their personal stories, and Morse was soon photographing both training sessions and the astronauts' families.

FDA does not currently have a mercury surveillance program for food ingredients such as added sugars or preservatives manufactured with mercury grade chlor-alkali products.

Our findings suggest that the proposed periconceptional blood mercury screening program for women planning a pregnancy would be highly cost-effective from a societal perspective.