MERCURY PROGRAM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • 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
   Usage Example(s)
   • under the Mercury program each flight had one astronaut
   Hypernyms(s) Mercury program is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • space program (what does space program mean?)