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NASA Group One Astronauts Selected, April
1959
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May 5, 1961
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Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes the first American to fly into Space
(Sub Orbital Flight), Mercury-Redstone 3, Freedom 7
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July 21, 1961 |
Virgil I "Gus"
Grissom, second American in Space (Sub
Orbital Flight), Liberty Bell 7
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February 20, 1962
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
(Colonel, USMC, Ret.), the third American in Space. Becomes the first U.S. Astronaut to orbit the
Earth (Mercury Atlas 6, Friendship 7), 3 orbits.
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May 24, 1962
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M. Scott Carpenter, Mercury Aurora 7, the fourth American in space,
was launched on the 24th of May 1962, he orbited the Earth 3 times
before landing safely. Mercury Atlas 7. 3 orbits.
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NASA Group
Two Astronauts Selected, September 1962
- Armstrong, Neil A.
- Borman, Frank
- Conrad,
Charles 'Pete', Jr.
- Lovell, James
A. "Jim", Jr.
- McDivitt, James
A. "Jim"
- See, Elliot M., Jr.
- Stafford, Thomas P.
- White, Edward
H. "Ed", II
- John W. Young
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October 3, 1962 |
Walter M. Schirra, fifth
American in Space, Sigma 7, Mercury Atlas 8. 6 orbits.
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May 15,
1963 |
L. Gordon Cooper, Sixth
American in Space, Faith 7. Mercury Atlas 9. 22 orbits.
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NASA Group
Three Astronauts Selected, October 1963
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Mercury Program
ends with Gordo Cooper's Flight. The Seventh Mercury
Astronaut, Donald K. 'Deke' Slayton, did not get a
flight because of a Heart Condition. He would later fly on
the Apollo - Soyuz Test Project.
Gemini Program Begins
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