American astronauts whose cited biography ties them to the first crewed programs of NASA, Project Mercury with its single-seat capsules from 1961 to 1963 and the two-person Gemini flights of 1965 and 1966 that rehearsed rendezvous, docking and spacewalks. A person belongs here when the cited article names Project Mercury, the Mercury Seven, or Gemini as the program they are known for first. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Wikipedia: Alan Shepard
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He was selected as one of NASA's original Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7.
Gus Grissom (Wikipedia)
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Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926, January 27, 1967) was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space.
Deke Slayton - Wikipedia
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Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (March 1, 1924, June 13, 1993) was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.
Gordon Cooper - Wikipedia
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(March 6, 1927, October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first human space program of the United States.
Wally Schirra - Wikipedia
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In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space.
Scott Carpenter - Wikipedia
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He was one of the Mercury Seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959.
John Glenn (Wikipedia)
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Glenn was one of the Mercury Seven military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts.
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