NASA introduces America’s first astronauts

  • NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
    NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
  • NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
    NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduces America’s first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr. and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were carefully selected from a group of 32 candidates to take part in Project Mercury, America…

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