Project Mercury

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Project Mercury
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Project Mercury was a program of the United States.

Project Mercury

Summary

Project Mercury is a NASA program[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of nasa_program entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,244 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Project Mercury is in the country of United States[3].
  • Project Mercury's image is recorded as Launch of Freedom 7 - GPN-2000-000859.jpg[4].
  • Project Mercury's instance of is recorded as NASA program[5].
  • Project Mercury's instance of is recorded as human spaceflight program[6].
  • Project Mercury's operator is recorded as National Aeronautics and Space Administration[7].
  • Mercury is named after Project Mercury[8].
  • Project Mercury's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 144391728[9].
  • Project Mercury's GND ID is recorded as 4649244-6[10].
  • Project Mercury's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n92071511[11].
  • Project Mercury's Commons category is recorded as Mercury program[12].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 1[13].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Big Joe 1[14].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 6[15].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 1A[16].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 2[17].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 1B[18].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Beach Abort[19].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Mercury-Atlas 1[20].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 5[21].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Mercury-Redstone 1[22].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Mercury-Redstone 1A[23].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Mercury-Redstone 2[24].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Mercury-Atlas 2[25].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Little Joe 5A[26].
  • Project Mercury's has part is recorded as Mercury-Redstone Booster Development[27].

Why It Matters

Project Mercury ranks in the top 2% of nasa_program entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,244 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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