The Future Looks Grim for Big Soda. Sales of soda are tanking, and beverage companies are hoping bottled water -- and hundreds of other products -- will fill the gap.
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.
Initiated in 1958, completed in 1963, Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program. The objectives of the program, which made six manned flights from 1961 to 1963, were specific: + Project Mercury Home.