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NASA Fast Facts There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The Mercury Seven are introduced as the first US astronauts: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton.

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Type keyword(s) to search "I Lived With the Astronauts": PM at the Beginning of U.S. Spaceflight In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight. By Joseph N. Bell CorbisGetty Images On this day 60 years ago, Alan Shepard packed into the cramped Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket and blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The NASA astronaut climbed to an altitude of 116 miles above Earth's surface and became the first American to reach space. His flight lasted just 15 minutes, but it cemented his legendary status as one of the most daring explorers in our nation's history.

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NASA Fast Facts There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The Mercury Seven are introduced as the first US astronauts: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton.

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NASA Fast Facts elisfkc2 / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Timeline October 1, 1958 – The official start of NASA. October 7, 1958 – NASA announces Project Mercury. The Mercury project’s objectives are to place a human spacecraft into orbital flight around Earth, observe human performance in such conditions and recover the human and the spacecraft safely. April 9, 1959 – The Mercury Seven are introduced as the first US astronauts: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr. and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton.

Light this candle! The 60th anniversary of the first American in space

Spaceflight Insider Matt Haskell May 5th, 2021 Alan Shepard launches to become the first American in space during the Mercury-Redstone 3 Mission. Image: NASA Sixty years ago today, on May 5, 1961, NASA astronaut Alan Shepard rocketed to space in his Mercury capsule to become the first American and the second human in space. The surprise launch by the Soviet Union of the first artificial satellite called Sputnik 1 in October of 1957 sparked the newest front in the Cold War — space. The race to see which country would dominate space was on. But first, humanity had to see if they could survive in space. The Mercury Seven astronauts in their spacesuits (front row, left to right) Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Jr., Donald K. “Deke” Slayton, John H. Glenn Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, (back row) Alan B. Shepard Jr., Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Credit : NASA

Mercury Seven: who were America's first astronauts?

Donald K. “Deke” Slayton The Mercury 7 astronauts. Left to right: Gus Grissom, Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard and Wally Schirra. Photo By Hank Walker/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images What was NASA’s Project Mercury? NASA announced Project Mercury on 7 October 1958 as a new programme that would set in motion a boom in human spaceflight for the USA. The project’s goals were to put a crewed spacecraft into orbit around Earth, observe and collect data on the mission, and then return the human crew to Earth safely. At this point, very little was known about human spaceflight. Could a NASA astronaut be launched into orbit, manoeuvre and control the spacecraft in a weightless environment, and then successfully land back on Earth?