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  2. Minamata Convention on Mercury - Wikipedia

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    The Minamata Convention on Mercury is an international treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from anthropogenic emissions and releases of mercury and mercury compounds. The convention was a result of three years of meeting and negotiating, after which the text of the convention was approved by delegates representing close ...

  3. NASA Astronaut Corps - Wikipedia

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    There are also "international active astronauts", who are assigned to duties at the Johnson Space Center, [10] and who were selected by their home agency to train as part of a NASA Astronaut Group and serve alongside their NASA counterparts. While the international astronauts go through training with the NASA Astronaut Corps, they are not ...

  4. TS Mercury - Wikipedia

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    The Training Ship Mercury, or TS Mercury, was a naval training establishment founded as a ship in 1885 and then a shore-based school at Hamble in Hampshire from 1892 until its closure in July 1968. Although one of over thirty pre-sea training schools founded during the Victorian period, it was the only privately owned establishment training ...

  5. International Space Settlement Design Competition - Wikipedia

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    Anconioh – The first colony on the surface of Mercury, seen in the Asian regional semi-finals, and the 2022 international finals. It is a moving settlement around the terminator line, constructed for greater production of reardonium.

  6. Project Mercury - Wikipedia

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    Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union.

  7. Mercury Systems - Wikipedia

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    Mercury Systems, Inc. is a technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry. It designs, develops and manufactures open architecture computer hardware and software products, including secure embedded processing modules and subsystems, avionics mission computers and displays, rugged secure computer servers, and trusted microelectronics components, modules and subsystems.

  8. Astronaut training - Wikipedia

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    This training is particularly important for missions when an astronaut will encounter multiple systems (for example on the International Space Station (ISS)). Training is performed in order to prepare astronauts for events that may pose a hazard to their health, the health of the crew, or the successful completion of the mission.

  9. Gold Mercury International Award - Wikipedia

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    Other members of Gold Mercury International as of 2013 included Enrique Barón Crespo, past president of the European Parliament. [56] In 2014 it was reported that Gold Mercury International, now headed by Nicolas De Santis and Enrique Barón, had launched the Brand EU initiative to improve the brand of the European Union and thus strengthen ...