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Mercury shines farthest from the sun in the evening sky on Oct. 29

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...
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OTD In Space - May 15: Last Flight Of NASA's Mercury Program

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Scientists Have Never Confirmed a Meteorite From Mercury. Could These Space Rocks From the Desert Be the First?

The meteorites could open up a new avenue to understand Mercury, pictured, which is notoriously hard to study due to its proximity to the sun. NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...
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Smithsonian curator revisits 'The Right Stuff' at Museum of Flight

On the eve of the 50th anniversary of astronaut John Glenn's historic orbital flight, historian Roger Launius' Feb. 19 presentation at the Museum of Flight will reconsider the Project Mercury space ...
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Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]

This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization ...
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See a razor-thin crescent moon line up with Mars and Mercury at sunset on Oct. 23

The 6%-lit waxing crescent moon will be visible roughly 5 degrees above the horizon as the sun sets on Oct. 23, with Mercury ...