The NASA Collection
Season 1
Ep 15. NASA - The 25th Year
- January 1, 1995
- 50 min
Project Mercury, the United States first manned space flight program was given the go ahead just one week after NASA was formed on October 1st, 1958. Seven test pilots were selected to become astronauts. Donald K. Slayto, Alan B. Shepard, Walter Schirra, Virgil Grissom, John Glenn Jr., Leroy Cooper, and Malcolm Carpenter.