Launch providers and vehicles
Project Mercury
The first United States human spaceflight program, which flew Freedom 7 from Launch Complex 5 on 5 May 1961 and Friendship 7, the first American orbital flight, from Launch Complex 14 on 20 February 1962 [NASAMR3][NASAMA6].
- Entity type
- human spaceflight program
- Kind
- program
- Lane
- Launch providers and vehicles
- Place
- Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Hub region
- Space Coast
- Founding year
- 1961
- Florida space year and timeline placement
- 1961 · 1961: Project Mercury flies from Launch Complex 5 (1961)
- Role
- first United States human spaceflight program
- Cutoff status
- Retired
- Status as of the cutoff
- Retired. The program ended in 1963.
- Entity status
- historic or successor
- Project status
- not applicable
- Evidence class
- historic or successor
- Confidence
- High · an official source that documents the node’s specific Florida claim
- Degree
- 2
- Betweenness
- 0.0005 on the full graph · 0.0002 on the industrial relations subgraph
- Sources
- [NASAMR3] [NASAMA6] [NASAMERC]
Connections
Industrial production and service
- flies from →Launch Complex 5Freedom 7 flies from the complex on 5 May 1961 [NASAMR3]1961
- flies from →Launch Complex 14Friendship 7, the first American orbital flight, flies from the complex on 20 February 1962 [NASAMA6]1962