When growing up as a child, many now have the dream of becoming an astronaut in the future. Few grow up to realise that dream due to various reasons. If this is the case now, when space ...

Of the original seven astronauts chosen by NASA in 1959, only one, Alan Shepard, made it to the moon. And he almost didn’t. More than two years after his pioneering Mercury-Redstone flight in ...

"It was his baby." Grissom, like Schirra, was a member of NASA's "Original Seven" Mercury astronauts and on July 21, 1961, became America's second man in space. But the same suborbital Mercury ...

The desk is kind of small. But the view. Oh, the view." This is NASA's 22nd group of astronauts. The first group, the original Mercury 7 astronauts, was chosen in 1959. Altogether, 350 Americans ...

Not all the Mercury Seven astronauts took up Rathmann ... Aside from the original Mercury crew, other astronauts subsequently ...