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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. All seven were military test pilots, a requirement specified by President Eisenhower to simplify the selection process.
NASA Astronaut Group 2, also known as the Next Nine and the New Nine, was the second group of astronauts selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Their selection was announced on September 17, 1962. The group augmented the Mercury Seven. President John F. Kennedy had announced Project Apollo, on May 25, 1961, with ...
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This is a list of astronauts by year of selection: people selected to train for a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Until recently, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. However, with the advent of suborbital flight starting with privately funded SpaceShipOne ...
Sep 16, 2022 · On April 18, 1962, NASA launched a widely-advertised campaign for its Flight Crew Training Program to select five to 10 new astronauts. The space agency needed more astronauts than the seven selected in April 1959 for the Mercury program to fill out crews to test and operate the new two-seat Gemini spacecraft.
May 9, 2013 · Group I's careers as astronauts were full of adulation but, by and large, relatively brief. By 1973, Neil Armstrong and others had stood on the moon and, according to the photographer's notes on ...
