Mercury (Nevada)
Mercury is a settlement in Nevada , USA, northwest of Las Vegas .
Mercury has numerous workplaces and living quarters for Nevada Test Site employees . Access is closed to the public (control gate). The Mercury exit on US 95 and the entrance gate to the Nevada Test Site are blocked every year on certain occasions (including "Mothers Day") by demonstrators calling for the suspension of nuclear tests and the return of the land seized by the Department of Energy (DoE) to the Western Shoshone - Indians demand.
In 1957, in the vicinity of Mercury at 36 ° 40 'north latitude and 115 ° 59' W missiles of the type Asp started to investigate the explosion clouds of atomic bombs surgery Plumbbob .
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- Mercury in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
Coordinates: 36 ° 40 ′ N , 116 ° 0 ′ W