Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mercury_program

1 sense of mercury program

Sense 1
Mercury program -- (a program of rocket-powered flights undertaken by US between 1961 and 1963 with the goal of putting a man in orbit around the earth; "under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut")
       INSTANCE OF=> space program -- (a technological program intended to explore outer space)