Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project

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13 June 1961 

Freedom 7 exhibited in Rome

13 June 1963 

McDonnell's Project Mercury contract was terminated. McDonnell had already essentially concluded its Mercury activities and Capsule 15B had been delivered to Cape Canaveral. A termination meeting held at the Manned Spacecraft Center on June 14 settled the disposition of Mercury property and personnel. McDonnell was to screen all Mercury property for possible use in the Gemini program; any property McDonnell claimed would be transferred to Gemini by authority of the contracting officer at St Louis or the Cape. McDonnell was directed to furnish Gemini Project Office with a list of key Mercury personnel who might be reassigned to Gemini.

13 June 1993 

Deke Slayton died in League City, Texas from complications of a brain tumor.