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    Little Joe 1 (LJ-1) was a failed launch of a Little Joe by NASA, a solid fuel rocket that was designed for a Max Q abort and launch escape system test...
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    successor, Little Joe II, was used for flight testing of the Apollo launch escape system from 1963 to 1966. When NASA needed a booster for Project Mercury, the...
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    The Little Joe 2 was a test of the Mercury space capsule, carrying the rhesus monkey Sam (Macaca mulatta) close to the edge of space. He was sent to test...
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    The Little Joe 1B was a launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission also carried a...
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    Little Joe 5 was the November 8, 1960, unmanned atmospheric test flight of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The objective...
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    The Little Joe 6 was a launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. The mission used a boilerplate...
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    Little Joe 5A was an uncrewed launch escape system test of the Mercury spacecraft, conducted as part of the U.S. Mercury program. It was an attempted re-test...
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    Little Joe 1A (LJ-1A) was an uncrewed rocket launched as part of NASA's Mercury program on November 4, 1959. This flight, a repeat of the Little Joe 1...
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    crewed flights Little Joe 1B at launch with Miss Sam, 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1: launch escape system lift-off after 4'' launch, 1960 Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham...
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    vehicle. The rocket's predecessor, Little Joe, had been used in testing the launch escape system for the Mercury spacecraft from 1959 to 1960. The program...
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    Big Joe 1 (Atlas-10D) launched an uncrewed boilerplate Mercury capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 9 September 1959. The purposes of the Big Joe 1 were...
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  • launch vehicle. The Atlas was also used for one Mercury flight under the Big Joe subprogram.: 207  The Mercury mission numbering system was: a two-letter designation...
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    over Mercury bash", BBC News, London, 1 September 2006, archived from the original on 25 September 2015, retrieved 4 January 2010 Sommerlad, Joe (22 January...
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  • The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness was a benefit concert held on Easter Monday, 20 April 1992, at Wembley Stadium in London, England...
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    The Mercury Marauder is an automobile nameplate that was used for three distinct full-size cars produced by the Mercury division of Ford Motor Company...
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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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    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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    was given little encouragement from Mercury Records and subsequently failed in the United States. After being dropped by Mercury, Ugly Kid Joe formed its...
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  • owned by Smash's parent company, Mercury Records. He had two further hits, "The Bridge of Love" (US No. 50) and "Little Red Rented Rowboat" (US No. 23)...
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    Sopranos episode "Whoever Did This". "'No kidding?' Joe Pantoliano was depressed, too". The Mercury News. May 1, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2021. "No Kidding?...
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    Memories - Laurie Lacob's memorial". The Mercury News: "Who’s that woman sitting next to Warriors owner Joe Lacob? Nicole Curran has been there the whole...
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    Blackwell (who used the pseudonym John Davenport) and Joe Cooley, disputed Tex's claims. Labelmate Little Willie John had a hit with "Fever", which inspired...
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  • "Hush" is a song written by American composer and musician Joe South, for recording artist Billy Joe Royal. The song was later covered by Somebody's Image...
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    career in Dallas, with whom he made the Finals again in 2020. Nicknamed "Little Joe" and "Captain America", Pavelski scored a goal in his first NHL game,...
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    2012, he won the BBC's Sound of 2012; and, in September 2020, he won the Mercury Prize. Born and raised in Muswell Hill, London, Kiwanuka is the son of...
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    flew on the Little Joe 2 in the Mercury program to 53 miles high. On January 21, 1960, Miss Sam, also a rhesus macaque, followed, on Little Joe 1B although...
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  • F-1 Trillion is the sixth studio album by American rapper and singer Post Malone. It was released through Republic and Mercury Records on August 16, 2024...
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  • Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller crime film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the film is based on Ryne...
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    sitcom The Café will not be back". Weston Mercury. Retrieved 15 January 2023. Staff (9 April 2013). "Ralf Little stars in new play". Itv.com. Retrieved 8...
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    28°27′47″N 80°34′57″W / 28.463082°N 80.582562°W / 28.463082; -80.582562 The Mercury Control Center (also known as Building 1385 or simply MCC) provided control...
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