The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959-60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace...
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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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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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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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Jean Hixson (category Mercury 13)
was an American aviator, a Women Airforce Service Pilot and part of the Mercury 13. She was also the second woman to exceed Mach One. Jean Hixson was born...
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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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Wally Funk (category Mercury 13)
13; Shatner was age 90 at the time. Funk remains the oldest woman to have travelled into space. Funk is the last surviving member of the Mercury 13 group...
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Todd Komarnicki (section Mercury 13)
Mercury 13 (working title) with TV producer Christina Wayne and Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain. The series will chronicle the story of the 13...
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Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved global fame as the lead vocalist...
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carried its founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, test pilot and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk, and Dutchman Oliver Daemen on a suborbital flight aboard...
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billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, pilot and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk, and Dutch student Oliver Daemen. The flight commenced...
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Jerri Sloan Truhill (category Mercury 13)
American aviator. She was part of the Mercury 13, the group of women who underwent the same physiological tests as the Mercury Seven during the same time frame...
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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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Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80. It is commonly known as quicksilver. A heavy, silvery d-block element, mercury is...
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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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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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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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Myrtle Cagle (category Mercury 13)
(June 3, 1925 – December 22, 2019) was an American pilot and one of the Mercury 13 female astronauts group. She worked as a flight instructor and wrote about...
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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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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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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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outer space. Women in space may also refer to: Chinese women in space Mercury 13, or the Woman in Space Program, 1959–1962 List of women astronauts Spacewoman...
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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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Gene Nora Jessen (category Mercury 13)
(January 10, 1937 – May 21, 2024) was an American aviator and a member of Mercury 13. Jessen worked throughout her career as a flight instructor, demonstration...
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was handled by Tirru, and the film was edited by Vivek Harshan. Mercury was released on 13 April 2018 worldwide except for Tamil Nadu, where due to a strike...
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Marion Dietrich (category Mercury 13)
was an American pilot and one of the Mercury 13 who underwent the same NASA testing in the early 1960s as the Mercury 7 astronauts. Born in San Francisco...
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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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Rhea Woltman (category Mercury 13)
(November 6, 1928 – February 15, 2021) was an American pilot and one of the Mercury 13. Woltman was born in Minnesota as third of six children to Ellanora and...
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Mercury(II) chloride (mercury bichloride[citation needed], mercury dichloride, mercuric chloride), historically also sulema or corrosive sublimate, is...
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is also working on a miniseries titled Mercury 13 for Amazon Video, based on Martha Ackmann’s book The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American...
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