On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later ...
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65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronautsThe Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for ... Neal Thompson's biography of one of the seven, Alan Shepard, Light This Candle provides a summary of each. Scott Carpenter "had the ...
Back row: Alan Shepard Jr., Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper. Veteran NBC space correspondent Jay Barbree writes about covering the Mercury seven in his memoir, Live Cape Canaveral, Fla.?
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