On this day in 1959, NASA introduced its first astronauts: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton. Selected from 32 candidates, these test pilots participated in the agency’s first manned space program.
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