A history of the original Mercury astronauts and the development of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing goes as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow 'boy scout' of the bunch and the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, and Wally Schirra.
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A history of the original Mercury astronauts and the development of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing goes as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow 'boy scout' of the bunch and the first American to orbit the earth; and the remaining pilots: Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, and Wally Schirra.
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