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  • Mercury Missions: A Detailed Look at NASA's Early Space Program
    There were seven crewed Mercury missions.

    They were:

    1. Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) - First successful launch of a Mercury capsule, carrying a chimpanzee named Ham.

    2. Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) - Unmanned test flight of a Mercury capsule.

    3. Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) - First crewed orbital flight, with John Glenn.

    4. Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) - Second crewed orbital flight, with Scott Carpenter.

    5. Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) - Third crewed orbital flight, with Gordon Cooper.

    6. Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9) - Fourth crewed orbital flight, with Walter Schirra.

    7. Mercury-Atlas 10 (MA-10) - Fifth crewed orbital flight, with Alan Shepard.

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