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project mercury got its name on October 7th, 1958

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emblem for the project

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project mercury was active from 1958-1963

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6 official manned flights

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the total cost for the entire project was 277 million dollars in 1965 money, that's 1.6 billion dollars in 2010 money!

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the original crew of the mercury missions