Assertion: mercury | /r/CapableOf | wait in line
Facets:
value: behind military projects for materials
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In keeping with his desire to keep from giving the US space program an overtly military flavor, President Eisenhower at first hesitated to give the project top national priority (DX rating under the Defense Production Act), which meant that Mercury had to wait in line behind military projects for materials; however, this rating was granted in May 1959, a little more than a year and a half after Sputnik was launched.