As a result, the first astronauts to leave the gravitational confines of Earth were forced to eat food from tubes, which included John Glenn and the rest of the Project Mercury astronauts. But as the ...

With that uncertainty dispelled, the astronauts of the remaining few years of Project Mercury continued to grimace their way through more such food in tubes. The Wrong Stuff In the mid-1960s, food ...

You have a degree in astrophysics and you know how to fly a jet. You’ve endured years of preparation and training, logged thousands of hours of flight time and even survived NASA’s terrifying ...

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A Navy test pilot and Korean War veteran, Carpenter was chosen for Project Mercury on April 9 ... He also because the first astronaut to eat solid food in space -- cubes of chocolate, figs ...

It’s one reason why the new book, “Photographing America’s First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub,” hits home in ways that Are unexpectedly poignant. It shows the ...

John P. Ryan as the head of the Manned Space Program, bringing out the Project Mercury astronauts in one of the greatest press conference scenes in movie history in “The Right Stuff.” ...