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<font size="4">Project
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'Apollo',0,'Mercury',1,'Gemini',0
was the first American manned space flight program.
<hr>
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<p><font size="4">In a period
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'1961 - 1963',1,'1948 - 1956',0,'1966 - 1972',0
six manned space flights were
accomplished as a part of a
25-flight program.
<hr>
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<font size="4">Project Mercury sent first
American astronauts into space -
first of them on a balistical "jump" and four onto the
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'Moon',0,'Earth',1,'Sun',0
orbit.
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<font size="4">All
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'six',1,'four',0,'ten',0
manned space flights were accomplished with complete pilot safety
and without change to the basic Mercury concepts.