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Project Mercury

This timeline highlights key manned and unmanned missions and tests of NASA’s Project Mercury. The primary objectives were to orbit a manned space vessel around Earth, investigate human ability to function in space and recover human and spacecraft safely.

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    Kissinger

    Kissinger is the story of the brilliant powerbroker who rose to the topmost echelons of American diplomacy. Revered or reviled, Henry Kissinger’s contradictions reflect those at the heart of U.S. foreign policy in the second half of the 20th century.

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    Kissinger (español)

    Kissinger es la historia del brillante personaje, poderoso e influyente, que ascendió a las más altas esferas de la diplomacia estadounidense. Venerado o denostado, las contradicciones de Henry Kissinger reflejan las que se encontraban en el centro de la política exterior estadounidense en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

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    Hard Hat Riot

    Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction workers, ushering in a new political and cultural divide that would redefine the American political landscape.

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