Template:Project Mercury - The invisible Empire

General

Missions

Crewed	Suborbit: Freedom 7 Liberty Bell 7 Earth orbit: Friendship 7 Aurora 7 Sigma 7 Faith 7 Cancelled: Freedom 7 II
Uncrewed	Little Joe 1 Big Joe 1 LJ-6 LJ-1A LJ-2 LJ-1B Beach Abort MA-1 Little Joe 5 MR-1 MR-1A MR-2 MA-2 LJ-5A MR-BD MA-3 LJ-5B MA-4 MS-1 MA-5

Astronauts

General	Mercury Seven
In order of flight	Suborbit: Alan Shepard Gus Grissom Earth orbit: John Glenn Scott Carpenter Wally Schirra Gordon Cooper Did not fly: Deke Slayton
Equipment	Navy Mark IV (space suit)

Subprograms

Contractors

Rockets

Launch sites
and Control Center

Related programs

US	Gemini (successor program) Apollo (lunar program)
Soviet	Vostok (rival in space race)