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#Mercury13 #FemaleAstronaut #ProjectMercury #GeraldynMCobb #Astronauts #ProjectMercury #SkirtIntoSpace
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March 18, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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#OTD #TDIH #September9, 1959: #RocketLaunches: #ProjectMercury: #FirstFlights: #BigJoe1, #FirstFlight of #ProjectMercury, occurs atop an #AtlasMissile (#Atlas10D at #CapeCanaveral #LaunchComplex14 (#LC14).#Spaceflight #NASA #SpaceRace #SpaceProgram #SpaceSky
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NASA | 1959 Footage: Big Joe Capsule Launch Pad Activities
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September 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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🚀 The Right Stuff & Project Mercury: A Tribute to Space Pioneers 🌍

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#TheRightStuff #ProjectMercury #SpaceExploration #NASA #Philately #BookLovers
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#OpenAI trains its #AI to replace #WallStreet #bankers
#YuriOntibon #SamAltman #ProjectMercury #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Investment #Banking #Automation
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Check out my Space Collection linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/the...

#Astronauts #FirstMannedSpaceFlight #NASA #JohnGlenn #AlanShepard #VirgilGrissom #Space #training #ProjectMercury #Flight #wallart #blackandWhite #UnitedStatesHistory
October 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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#OTD #TDIH #January21, 1960: #ProjectMercury: #RocketLaunches: #LittleJoe1B, a #MercurySpacecraft from #WallopsIsland, Virginia with #MissSam, a female #RhesusMonkey on board. @GarofaloWX @Meteor_Mike @MichelePowersWx @Meteor_Mike
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January 21, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #March5, 1931: #HBD #JerrieCobb! #Mercury13 #FemaleAstronaut #ProjectMercury member.
#GeraldynMCobb #Astronauts #ProjectMercury #SkirtIntoSpace
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March 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #March18, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP #JerrieCobb.
#Mercury13 #FemaleAstronaut #ProjectMercury #GeraldynMCobb #Astronauts #ProjectMercury #SkirtIntoSpace #SpaceSky
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March 17, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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#OTD #TDIH #July18, 1921 #HBD #JohnGlenn! #Astronauts #MercurySeven #Mercury7 #ProjectMercury #SpaceRace #SpaceShuttle #SpacePlanes#PresidentialMedalOfFreedom #SpaceSky
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Classic NASA Film - Friendship 7 - #1
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July 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #March5, 1931: #HBD #JerrieCobb! #Mercury13 #FemaleAstronaut #ProjectMercury member.
#GeraldynMCobb #Astronauts #ProjectMercury #SkirtIntoSpace
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March 5, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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9 April 1959: NASA announced the names of the United States' first seven astronauts. #History #Space #exploration #ProjectMercury
The Mercury Seven astronauts: Back row (L-R): Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper; Front row (L-R): Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter
April 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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#JCKaelin: I became one of the few FB friends he allowed; I am grateful for the time he spent with me HEART EMOJI
#OTD #TDIH #June15, 2017: #RIP #BillDana. #Comedians #JoseJimenez #Screenwriters #SteveAllen #EdSullivan #ProjectMercury #8thMercuryAstronaut #ComedySky
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Jose Jimenez presents The Astronaut
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June 15, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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A Piece of history for sure linda-howes.pixels.com/featured/pro...

#ProjectMercury #BallisticCapsule #SpaceTravel #PracticeForAstronauts #NASA #SpaceExploration #USSpacePlans #wallart #Astronauts
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August 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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9 April 1959: #NASA announced the names of the United States' first seven astronauts. #History #Space #exploration #ProjectMercury
The seven Project Mercury astronauts. Back row (left to right): Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper; Front row (left to right): Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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1/11 🧵
On May 5, 1961, just 23 days after Gagarin’s flight, Alan Shepard launched at 9:34 a.m. EST and began his historic flight.

Aboard his capsule #Freedom7, powered by a Redstone booster, he became the first American in space.🔭 ⚛️ 🧪

#histsci #Space #ProjectMercury
The launch of flight Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3), Freedom 7. MR-3 placed the first American astronaut, Alan Shepard, into space on May 5, 1961. ent John F. Kennedy presents astronaut Alan B. Shepard with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal Award in a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 8, 1961. In the background are Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, NASA Administrator James E. Webb, and several NASA astronauts. Just three weeks later, Kennedy would promise America a manned moon landing by the end of the decade. Credit: NASA Via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for launch. ent John F. Kennedy presents astronaut Alan B. Shepard with NASA's Distinguished Service Medal Award in a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 8, 1961. In the background are Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, NASA Administrator James E. Webb, and several NASA astronauts. Just three weeks later, Kennedy would promise America a manned moon landing by the end of the decade. Credit: NASA Via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
May 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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#HiddenFiguresMovie Anyone other than me would want a vintage #ProjectMercury articulating map in their media room. Very cool.
January 4, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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For more information here's data from #NASA on #ProjectMercury The program that put the US in the human spaceflight business - www.nasa.gov/project-merc...
Project Mercury - NASA
For Students
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April 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The Mercury 8?
#ProjectMercury #astronauts #TrumpMeme #WorldCup
Group photo of the original seven Mercury astronauts in the space suits with Donald Trump in front of the group and being pulled away (as with the Spanish soccer team).
July 23, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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#JCKaelin: I became one of the few FB friends he allowed; I am grateful for the time he spent with me ❤️
#OTD #TDIH #June15, 2017: #RIP #BillDana. #Comedians #JoseJimenez #Screenwriters #SteveAllen #EdSullivan #ProjectMercury #8thMercuryAstronaut #ComedySky
youtu.be/ncBSOyte6lA?...
Jose Jimenez presents The Astronaut
YouTube video by dvidgreen
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June 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
sempaiscuba.bsky.social
3 October 1962: US astronaut Wally Schirra launched from Cape Canaveral in the Mercury capsule Sigma 7 atop an Atlas rocket for a six-orbit flight. #History #Space #exploration #ProjectMercury #MA-8
Photograph of astronaut Wally Schirra getting into the Sigma 7 capsule for the Mercury MA-8 mission.
October 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Today in History:
Nov 29, 1961 – #ProjectMercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: #Enos, a #chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

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Enos (chimpanzee) Top # 15 Facts
YouTube video by Vaishnav Leepsa
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November 29, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Meta was disappointed that the initial tests of the study showed that people who stopped using Facebook “for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and social comparison.”

#facebook #meta #ProjectMercury #socialmedia #legal #technology #tech
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Zuckerberg’s Big Tobacco Moment: Unsealed Filings Reveal how Meta Buried Study Linking Facebook Usage to Addiction and Depression

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #BigTech #ChildSafety #Lawsuit #SocialMedia #MarkZuckerberg #OnlineSafety #Regulation #TechNews #ProjectMercury
Zuckerberg's Big Tobacco Moment: Unsealed Filings Reveal how Meta Buried Study Linking Facebook Usage to Addiction and Depression - WinBuzzer
Unsealed court filings have exposed Meta's suppression of "Project Mercury," a study confirming Facebook's causal link to depression, and a "17-strike" trafficking rule.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Court papers say Meta ran a study in 2020: people who quit Facebook for one week felt less sad, less anxious, less alone. Meta stopped the study and never shared it.

They found the answer and hid it.

#ProjectMercury #Meta #MentalHealth #DeleteMeta
August 26, 2026 at 4:40 AM
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#OnThisDay July 21, 1999: Lost to the ocean in 1961, Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 capsule was finally revealed after a historic deep-sea salvage & restoration effort! 🚀🌊 A true masterpiece of modern engineering and historical preservation. #SpaceHistory #ProjectMercury #Tech
July 21, 2026 at 12:01 PM