{"id":14523,"date":"2018-04-09T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-mercury-seven-3\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T23:16:09","slug":"the-mercury-seven-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-mercury-seven-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mercury Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"The Mercury Seven\" alt=\"The Mercury Seven\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/0cee0__mercury-seven.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"265\" \/>April 9, 1959<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> announces the selection of the United States\u2019 first seven astronauts,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Carpenter\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Carpenter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gordon_Cooper\" target=\"_blank\">Gordon Cooper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Glenn\" target=\"_blank\">John Glenn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gus_Grissom\" target=\"_blank\">Gus Grissom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wally_Schirra\" target=\"_blank\">Wally Schirra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Shepard\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Shepard<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deke_Slayton\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Slayton<\/a>, The seven were chosen from 110 applicants to participate in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_program\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury program<\/a>, the nation\u2019s first manned space program.\u00a0The news media quickly dubs the group the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_Seven\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Seven<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0On May 5th, 1961, Shepard will become the first American in space during the flight of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freedom_7\" target=\"_blank\">Freedom 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/09\/the-mercury-seven\/\">The Mercury Seven<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/04\/09\/the-mercury-seven\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 1959 NASA announces the selection of the United States\u2019 first seven astronauts,\u00a0Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton, The seven were chosen from 110 applicants to participate in the\u00a0Mercury program, the nation\u2019s first manned space program.\u00a0The news media quickly dubs the group the \u201cMercury Seven.\u201d\u00a0On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3408,3214],"class_list":["post-14523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-mercury","tag-seven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}