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1959. April 9 – NASA Group 1 – Mercury Seven (USA) Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959.
1959. April 9 – NASA Group 1 – Mercury Seven (USA) Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The first group of astronauts selected by NASA were for Project Mercury in April 1959.
History. The first U.S. astronaut candidates were selected by NASA in 1959, for its Project Mercury with the objective of orbiting astronauts around the Earth in single-man capsules. The military services were asked to provide a list of military test pilots who met specific qualifications.
17 ott 2023 · (NASA) selected the first group of astronauts in 1959. From 500 candidates having the required jet aircraft flight experience and engineering training, as well as height below 5 feet 11 inches, seven military men became the nation’s first astronauts.
List of astronauts or space travellers, may refer to: By name. List of astronauts by name. By nationality. List of space travelers by nationality. Timeline of space travel by nationality. American astronauts. List of Apollo astronauts. Astronaut birthplaces by US state. List of Gemini astronauts. Mercury Seven. NASA Astronaut Corps.
Apollo astronauts by their dates of selection by NASA 1959 Mercury Seven astronauts (L to R): Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Grissom, Schirra, Shepard, and Slayton. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom began his career at NASA in 1959. In 1966, he was selected as Command Pilot for the first crewed Apollo mission, a low
This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft . For a list of everyone who has flown in space, see List of space travelers by name . More than 600 people have been trained as astronauts.
