HOW TO WORK NASA | WHAT IS PROJECT MERCURY |

 

                                                          

PROJECT MERCURY→ The Mercury seven were the group of seven astronauts

 selected to fly spacecraft for project mercury. They are also referred to as the original

 seven and astronaut group 1. 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. The mercury

 seven created a new profession in the united states and established the image of the

 American astronauts for decades to come.

All of the Mercury seven eventually flew into space. They piloted the six spaceflights of

 the mercury program that had an astronaut onboard from May 1961 to May 1963, and

 members of the group flew on all of The NASA human spaceflights programs of the 20^t

^h century- mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle. Shepard became the first American

 to enter space in 1961 and later walked on the moon on Apollo 14 in 1971. Grissom flew

 Mercury and Gemini missions, but died in 1967 in the Apollo 1 fire; the others all survived

 past retirement from service. Schirra flew Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission, in

 Grissom’s place. Slayton, grounded with 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.

 He was the last living member of the mercury seven when he died in 2016 at the age of 95.