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The Mercury Seven were a group of American astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury, announced by NASA on April 9, 1959. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton created a new profession. They piloted all the spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and some flew in the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. Shepard became the first American to enter space in 1961, and in 1971 walked on the Moon. Grissom, after flying Mercury and Gemini missions, died in 1967 in the Apollo 1 fire; the others all survived past retirement from service. Schirra flew Apollo 7, the first Apollo mission. Slayton, grounded with an atrial fibrillation, ultimately flew on the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Glenn became the first American in orbit in 1962, and flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 to become, at age 77, the oldest person to fly in space. (Full article...)
Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 19:07, 25 July 2019 (UTC)