9 April 1959
Project Mercury Astronaut Selection
NASA presents Shepard as one of the seven pilots selected for Project Mercury, America's first human spaceflight programme.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Washington, D.C. in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
NASA presents Shepard as one of the seven pilots selected for Project Mercury, America's first human spaceflight programme.
NASA names Slayton among the seven original astronauts selected for Project Mercury.
NASA introduces Cooper as one of the original seven astronauts selected for Project Mercury flight training.
NASA introduces Carpenter as one of the seven military test pilots selected for Project Mercury.
NASA presents Grissom as one of the original seven astronauts chosen to train for Project Mercury missions.
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