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The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific: To orbit a manned spacecraft around Earth; To investigate man's ability to function in space; To recover both man and spacecraft safely.
Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program. The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project (BPP) was a research project funded by NASA from 1996 through 2002, to study various proposals for revolutionary methods of spacecraft propulsion which would require breakthroughs in physics before they could be realized, hence the name.