Can you pass the test NASA gave potential astronauts in 1958?
May John Glenn be with you.
By Eleanor Cummins and Corinne Iozzio April 20, 2018
In 1958, the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (aka NASA) launched a search for the nation’s first spacemen. Of the 508 military candidates the agency considered, only seven would become Mercury astronauts.
In early 1959, 31 top contenders arrived at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to endure what’s perhaps the most exhaustive battery of psychological, intellectual, and physical work-ups in modern history.
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