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April 9, 1959: The Mercury Seven astronauts are introduced. Pictured front row, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, and back row, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper The Mercury 7 (15258556433).jpg
April 9, 1959: The Mercury Seven astronauts are introduced. Pictured front row, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter, and back row, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper

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Contents

April 1, 1959 (Wednesday)

April 2, 1959 (Thursday)

April 3, 1959 (Friday)

April 4, 1959 (Saturday)

April 5, 1959 (Sunday)

April 6, 1959 (Monday)

April 7, 1959 (Tuesday)

April 8, 1959 (Wednesday)

April 9, 1959 (Thursday)

April 9, 1959: Mercury Seven press conference Mercury Seven astronauts at NASA press conference in 1959.jpg
April 9, 1959: Mercury Seven press conference
Frank Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright portrait.jpg
Frank Lloyd Wright

April 10, 1959 (Friday)

April 10, 1959: Crown Prince Akihito marries Michiko Shoda in Japan's royal wedding Crown Prince & Princess & Emperor Showa & Empress Kojun wedding 1959-4.jpg
April 10, 1959: Crown Prince Akihito marries Michiko Shōda in Japan's royal wedding
30-yen commemorative stamp Wedding of Crown Prince Akihito Stamp of 30Yen.jpg
30-yen commemorative stamp

April 11, 1959 (Saturday)

April 12, 1959 (Sunday)

April 13, 1959 (Monday)

April 14, 1959 (Tuesday)

April 15, 1959 (Wednesday)

April 16, 1959 (Thursday)

April 17, 1959 (Friday)

April 18, 1959 (Saturday)

Corvette Stingray 1959 Corvette XP-87 Stingray.jpg
Corvette Stingray

April 19, 1959 (Sunday)

April 20, 1959 (Monday)

Promo for the CBS pilot The Untouchables Desilu Playhouse 1959.jpg
Promo for the CBS pilot

April 21, 1959 (Tuesday)

April 22, 1959 (Wednesday)

Mercury spacecraft and escape system configuration Mercury-Kapsel und Rettungssystem.jpg
Mercury spacecraft and escape system configuration

April 23, 1959 (Thursday)

April 24, 1959 (Friday)

April 25, 1959 (Saturday)

April 26, 1959 (Sunday)

April 27, 1959 (Monday)

April 28, 1959 (Tuesday)

April 29, 1959 (Wednesday)

April 30, 1959 (Thursday)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wally Schirra</span> American astronaut (1923–2007)

Walter Marty Schirra Jr. was an American naval aviator, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. In 1959, he became one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, which was the United States' first effort to put humans into space. On October 3, 1962, he flew the six-orbit, nine-hour, Mercury-Atlas 8 mission, in a spacecraft he nicknamed Sigma 7, becoming the fifth American and ninth human to travel into space. In December 1965, as part of the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft. In October 1968, he commanded Apollo 7, an 11-day low Earth orbit shakedown test of the three-man Apollo Command/Service Module and the first crewed launch for the Apollo program.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mercury Seven</span> Group of American astronauts chosen in 1959

The Mercury Seven were the group of seven astronauts selected to fly spacecraft for Project Mercury. They are also referred to as the Original Seven and Astronaut Group 1. Their names were publicly announced by NASA on April 9, 1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. The Mercury Seven created a new profession in the United States, and established the image of the American astronaut for decades to come.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NASA Astronaut Group 3</span> Group of astronauts selected by NASA

NASA Astronaut Group 3—'The Fourteen'—was a group of fourteen astronauts selected by NASA for the Gemini and Apollo program. Their selection was announced in October 1963. Seven were from the United States Air Force, four from the United States Navy, one was from the United States Marine Corps and two were civilians. Four died in training accidents before they could fly in space. All of the surviving ten flew Apollo missions; five also flew Gemini missions. Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Gene Cernan and David Scott walked on the Moon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mercury 13</span> Group of American women who passed astronaut screening tests

The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who took part in a privately funded research program run by NASA physician William Randolph Lovelace II in 1959-1960, which aimed to test and screen women for spaceflight. The first participant, pilot Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb helped Lovelace identify and recruit the others. The participants successfully underwent the same physiological screening tests as had the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury. While Lovelace called the project Woman in Space Program, the thirteen women decades later became known as the "Mercury 13"— a term coined in 1995 as a comparison to the Mercury Seven astronauts. The Mercury 13 women were not allowed in NASA's official astronaut program, and at the time, never trained as a group, nor flew in space.

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