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NOUN (1)

1. a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth;
- Example: "under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut"


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Mercury program
    n 1: a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US
         between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in
         orbit around the earth; "under the Mercury program each
         flight had one astronaut"