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2 unusual facts about Mercury Seven


Mercury 7

The Mercury Seven, first class of US astronauts, seven, selected for Project Mercury, Astronaut Group 1

Scouting and Guiding in Newfoundland and Labrador

American Scouting at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base Troop 6 under the guidance of Ed Zeidler and Sgt. Henry Erben (the survival trainer for the first seven astronauts) was the furthest east BSA troop in North America.


Marion Dietrich

Marion Dietrich (1926–1974) was a pilot and one of the Mercury 13 who underwent the same NASA testing in the early 1960s as the Mercury 7 astronauts.

Moon Shot

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon is a book written by Mercury Seven astronaut Alan Shepard, with NBC News correspondent Jay Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict.


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