Nasa’s first attempt to achieve human spaceflight was called the Mercury program.
Program Mercury or <em>Project Mercury </em>was the NASA program that put the first American astronauts in space. The name Mercury was to honor a Roman god. Astronaut <em>Alan Shepard piloted the first flight</em>, a 15-minute flight and came back to earth. He was the first American in space. The name of the capsule was Freedom 7.
The immediate result of the Vietnam War was that the communists won and Vietnam was united as one country, run by the communists. In Vietnam, this led to a number of things. Notably, it led to the flight of over 1 million Vietnamese who wanted to escape the country.
