The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who took part in a privately funded research program run by NASA physician William Randolph Lovelace II in...
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Mercury 13 is a 2018 documentary film about the Mercury 13, thirteen American woman pilots who in 1960 took and passed the same tests given the previous...
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Mercury/13 is a group focused on acquiring and owning multiple professional women's association football teams across Europe and Latin America. The group...
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its...
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Todd Komarnicki (section Mercury 13)
Awards 2017. Komarnicki is currently working on 1960s NASA Event Series Mercury 13 (working title) with TV producer Christina Wayne and Oscar-nominated actress...
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Mercury was a brand of mid-priced automobiles produced by American manufacturer Ford Motor Company between 1938 and 2011 with 1939 being the first model...
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Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead...
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Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System. In English, it is named after the ancient Roman god Mercurius (Mercury)...
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Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is also known as quicksilver and was formerly named hydrargyrum (/haɪˈdrɑːrdʒərəm/...
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The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and...
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The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released by a musical act from the United...
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Mercury-Atlas was a subprogram of Project Mercury: 1 that included most of the flights and tests using the Atlas LV-3B launch vehicle. The Atlas was...
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The Illawarra Mercury is a daily newspaper serving the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It has been published since 1855, making it one...
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The Mercury Cougar is a series of automobiles that was sold by Mercury from 1967 to 2002. The model line is a diverse series of vehicles; though the Cougar...
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Mercury(II) chloride (or mercury bichloride[citation needed], mercury dichloride), historically also known as sulema or corrosive sublimate, is the inorganic...
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The Mercury Marquis is a model line of automobiles marketed by Mercury from 1967 to 1986. Deriving its name from a title of French nobility, the Marquis...
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Jill Wagner (redirect from Mercury girl)
Jill Suzanne Wagner (born January 13, 1979) is an American actress and television personality. She was the on-field host for the ABC game show Wipeout...
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Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s...
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Jerrie Cobb (category Mercury 13)
also part of the Mercury 13, a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts,...
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Jacqueline Cochran (section Mercury 13)
planes from factories to port cities. Cochran was later a sponsor of the Mercury 13 women astronaut program. Jacqueline Cochran, born Bessie Lee Pittman,...
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Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of U.S. Route 95 at a point 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Las...
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Wally Funk (category Mercury 13)
first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13. Funk became the oldest person to go to space on July 20, 2021, at age...
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Mercury poisoning is a type of metal poisoning due to exposure to mercury. Symptoms depend upon the type, dose, method, and duration of exposure. They...
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transit of Mercury across the Sun takes place when the planet Mercury passes directly between the Sun and a superior planet. During a transit, Mercury appears...
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The Mercury Grand Marquis is an automobile that was produced by Mercury from the 1975 until 2011 model years. Introduced as the flagship sub-model of...
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Red mercury is a discredited substance, most likely a hoax perpetrated by con artists who sought to take advantage of gullible buyers on the black market...
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The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle, designed for NASA's Project Mercury, was the first American crewed space booster. It was used for six sub-orbital...
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planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for Mercury Surface...
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The Mercury Sable is a range of automobiles manufactured and marketed by the Mercury brand of Ford Motor Company. Introduced on December 26, 1985, as the...
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Jerrie Cobb of the "Mercury 13" became a consultant to NASA in 1961 and testified before Congress in July 1962 about the "Mercury 13"'s positive medical...
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