The captain's gig of H.M.S. Mercury was being rowed to H.M.S. Neptune.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Project Mercury was followed by the two-man Project Gemini ( 1962-66 ).

The Apollo program was conceived early in 1960, during the Eisenhower administration, as a follow-up to America's Mercury program.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

In September 1962, by which time two Project Mercury astronauts had orbited the Earth, Gilruth had moved his organization to rented space in Houston, and construction of the MSC facility was under way, Kennedy visited Rice to reiterate his challenge in a famous speech:

However, the messenger god Mercury was sent by Jupiter and Venus to remind Aeneas of his journey and his purpose, compelling him to leave secretly.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

To promote it in the United States, Mercury Records financed a coast-to-coast publicity tour in which Bowie, between January and February 1971, was interviewed by radio stations and the media.

The work De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae (" About the wedding of Mercury and Philologia ") written by Martianus Capella ( 4th-5th century ) was very influential on the successive medieval encyclopedias.

At one point, while aboard HMS Mercury, she anchored off New York, where, among other visitors, the captain entertained William Tryon ; Allen reports that Tryon glanced at him without any sign of recognition, although it is likely the New York governor knew who he was.

Celeris was given to Castor by Mercury.

Mercury was added to the tube, trapping a fixed quantity of air in the short, sealed end of the tube.

Mercury is a Ford Motor Company division, and Mercury's 427 was exactly the same engine as Ford's with different logos.

For him, the fact that his theory gave a straightforward explanation of the anomalous perihelion shift of the planet Mercury, discovered earlier by Urbain Le Verrier in 1859, was important evidence that he had at last identified the correct form of the gravitational field equations.

Similarly, Brooks was influenced by 1970s-era rock of Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen and the operatic rock of Queen with Freddie Mercury.

Mercury, vital for the production of silver was scarce, besides the neglect of the officials.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

Later the staff had two intertwined snakes and sometimes it was crowned with a pair of wings and a ball, but the old form remained in use even when Hermes was associated with Mercury by the Romans.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

Lugh's name was formerly interpreted as deriving from the Proto-Indo-European root * leuk -, " flashing light ", and he is often surrounded by solar imagery, so from Victorian times he has often been considered a sun god, similar to the Greco-Roman Apollo though historically he is only ever equated with Mercury ( citation ?).

The project name came from Mercury, a Roman god often seen as a symbol of speed.

Else the reverse may happen in the evening sky after dusk, with Mercury or Venus entering retrograde motion just as it is about to overtake another planet ( often Mercury and Venus are both of the planets involved, and when this situation arises they may remain in very close visual proximity for several days or even longer ).

Mercury Rev is often compared to The Flaming Lips, and in fact share close ties: soon after the band's formation, Donahue also joined the Flaming Lips as second guitarist and appeared on two of their albums ; and since the 1990 album In a Priest Driven Ambulance, Dave Fridmann has co-produced every Flaming Lips studio album to date except 1993's Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

In Gaul she was often depicted with the Roman god Mercury as her consort, but is sometimes found independently.

Mercury was used in the process of curing felt used in some hats, making it impossible for hatters to avoid inhaling the mercury fumes given off during the hat making process ; hatters and mill workers thus often suffered mad hatter disease, mercury poisoning causing neurological damage including confused speech and distorted vision.

Then God ordered the elements into the seven heavens ( often seen as the spheres of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and the Moon ) to travel in circles and govern destiny.

Oldmixon had much to do with editing two periodicals, The Muses Mercury and The Medley, and he often complained that his services were overlooked by the government.

Shortly after its introduction, the Corvair faced competition from the Ford Falcon and Mercury Comet and was plagued by problems — though according to a 1960 Time report, " many were the minor bugs that often afflict a completely new car.

Many coins in the " Mercury " series exhibit striking defects, most notably the fact that the line separating the two horizontal bands in the center of the fasces is often missing, in whole or in part ; the 1945 issue of the Philadelphia Mint hardly ever appears with this line complete from left to right, and as a result, such coins ( designated as " FSB " for " full split bands ") are worth more than usual for uncirculated specimens.

Pegasus was initially a text-mode application for networks, handling both internal and Internet mail, often operating in conjunction with the Mercury mail transport.

Because Mercury travels around the sun much more quickly than Jupiter, it always has time to pass through the transit node by the time Jupiter moves away from the node and often has sufficient time to do so more than once.

It also marks a shift in literary style, with a preference for encyclopedic works in a dense and allusive style, consisting of summaries of earlier works ( anthologies, epitomes ) often dressed up in elaborate allegorical garb ( e. g. De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae ( The Marriage of Mercury and Philology ) of Martianus Capella, and the De Arithmetica, De Musica, and Consolatio Philosophiae of Boethius — both later key works in Medieval education ).

If Mars is in conjunction with the Sun, there is often a triple conjunction between Mars and Mercury or between Mars and Venus.

Nonetheless, it carried the Mercury name, was produced, written, directed and presented by Welles ( and often starred or co-starred him ), and it combined abridged scriptings of old Mercury performances with new shows.

That fame persisted well into the late 20th Century and the car's name was often used by way of comparison by modern makes of cars including Nash, Triumph and Mercury.

Freddie Mercury of the band Queen was known to use the reprise often, as he loved to engage the crowd.

However, Mercury often maintains her original red hair, suggesting that she has the ability to change her mercury's color and texture to a degree.

* Virgos, also ruled by Mercury, are quite analytical in their thought processes, but are often critical of others.

* Mercury, while a liquid at normal temperatures, but often classed as a mineral.

In live performances, Mercury would often sing the line " all you people keep yourself alive " ( which is sung only two times in the studio version ) in place of the more-repeated line " it'll take you all your time and a money honey you'll survive ".