What is Mercury Seven?
[[File:The Mercury 7 (15258556433).jpg|right|200px|thumb|Members of the Mercury Seven]] The '''Mercury Seven''' were the group of seven [[astronaut]]s selected to fly spacecraft for [[Project Mercury]]. They are also known as the '''Original Seven''' and '''Astronaut Group 1'''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Compton |first=W. David |title=Where No Man Has Gone Before |year=1988 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890016575.pdf |publisher=NASA |location=Washington, DC|id=SP-4214 |isbn=978-1-306-35053-2 |oclc=868270614}}</ref> Their names were publicly announced by [[NASA]] on April 9, 1959. These seven original American astronauts were [[Scott Carpenter]], [[Gordon Cooper]], [[John Glenn]], [[Gus Grissom]], [[Wally Schirra]], [[Alan Shepard]], and [[Deke Slayton]]. All of the Mercury Seven eventually flew in space. They piloted the six spaceflights of the Mercury program that had an astronaut on board from May 1961 to May 1963, and members of the group flew on all of the NASA human spaceflight programs of the 20th century—Mercury, [[Project Gemini|Gemini]], [[Apollo program|Apollo]], and the [[Space Shuttle]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Carpenter |first1=Scott |last2=Stoever |first2=Kris |title=For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey Of A Mercury Astronaut |url=https://archive.org/details/forspaciousskies0000carp |location=New York |year=2003 |publisher=NAL Trade |isbn=978-0-451-21105-7 |oclc=52821294}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{stub}} [[Category:NASA]] [[Category:American astronauts]]