Gordon Cooper, on board the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission spacecraft named FAITH 7, was the astronaut on the final Mercury mission on May 15-16, 1963.
(John Glenn was later to go into space on board a shuttle mission, so technically he was the last of the astronauts of Project Mercury in space.)
Nobody has yet gone to the planet Mercury as yet, and I do not think that they will send anyone there. As it is hot.
Astronaut Alan .B.Shepherd was the first American astronaut to go in space. He did a sub orbit of the earth in his Mercury spacecraft. He was the Apollo 14 commander.
FLATS had nothing to do with what the women wore. It stood for First Lady Astronaut Trainees. The FLATs were a group of women who applied for astronaut training during the days of the Mercury space program. None of them were ever selected.
The first American spacecraft which orbited the earth was called The Mercury Friendship 7, and the astronaut was a famous person his name was John Glenn, he was a senator for many years later.
The first female astronaut was Valentina Tereshkova and she was from the Soviet Union.
Nobody has yet gone to the planet Mercury as yet, and I do not think that they will send anyone there. As it is hot.
Astronaut Alan .B.Shepherd was the first American astronaut to go in space. He did a sub orbit of the earth in his Mercury spacecraft. He was the Apollo 14 commander.
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
Alan Shepard was the first person to go into space using a Mercury Capsule. His flight was sub-orbital, lasting about 15 minutes.
FLATS had nothing to do with what the women wore. It stood for First Lady Astronaut Trainees. The FLATs were a group of women who applied for astronaut training during the days of the Mercury space program. None of them were ever selected.
No, the word astronaut is not capitalized in that sentence.
Mercury Freedom 7, carrying Alan Shepard, was the first launch of a human astronaut by the US and the second launch of a human into space.
Each manned Mercury launch carried a single astronaut. Gemini ... two Apollo ... three Shuttle ... several
Alan Shepherd (who was an original Mercury astronaut and the first American in space)
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