Washington: Exactly 67 years ago today, on April 9, 1959, the American space agency NASA had announced the ‘Original Seven’ which changed the course of human history. In a press conference hall in Washington, NASA presented its first seven astronauts to the world, who came to be known as ‘Mercury Seven’. The very next day of the press conference, these seven pilots became national heroes overnight. His photographs filled the front pages of newspapers and magazine covers.
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Project Mercury was America’s first human space mission program, whose goal was to send humans into Earth’s orbit and bring them back safely.
For this project, these 7 brave men, Alan B. Shepard Jr. (the first American in space), Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, John H. Glenn Jr. (the first American to orbit the Earth), M. Scott Carpenter, Walter “Wally” Schirra Jr., L. Gordon Cooper Jr. and Donald K. “Dick” Slayton was selected from among more than 500 military test pilots after rigorous physical and mental tests.
Of these, Alan Shepherd later became the first American to go to space and John Glenn the first American to orbit the Earth. This astonishing feat on April 9 not only intensified the ‘Space Race’ between the US and the Soviet Union, but also laid the foundation for today’s modern space missions (such as the Moon and Mars missions).
Report: Sushil Kumar Sah
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