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Astronauts INST 154 Apollo at 50 Mercury 7 Press Conference “Mercury 7” Astronaut Selection • Criteria • Age<40, Height<5’11”, Hours≥1500, Test Pilot, Jets, B.S., Active Duty • Screened 110 of 508 military test pilot records • 58 Air Force, 47 Navy, 5 Marine • Interviewed 69 of those 110 • 16 declined, 21 were rejected (6 for height!) • Ran medical tests on the remaining 32 • 1 failed (Lovell) • Selected 7 of the remaining 31 • 2 more were selected in later rounds (Conrad, Givens) • Six flew in Project Mercury Houston • Manned Spacecraft Center: Bob Gilruth • Flight Crew Operations: Deke Slayton • Astronaut Office: Alan Sheppard • Flight Crew Support • Aircraft Operations • Flight Operations: Chris Kraft • Mission Control The Rotation • Astronaut Candidate Training • Orbital mechanics, Spacecraft systems, Survival, Geology, … • CAPCOM, (Apollo) Support Crew • Support crew: Spacecraft tests, Logistics, Protocol, … • Backup Crew • Train to fly the mission (individually or as a crew) • Prime Crew (3 flights later) • Fly the mission Apollo-Era Astronaut Groups • 7 in Group 1 (“The Original 7”) • 6 flew Mercury, 3 flew Gemini, 2 flew Apollo, 1 flew ASTP, 1 flew Shuttle • 9 in Group 2 (“The New Nine”) • 8 flew Gemini, 8 flew Apollo, 1 flew Skylab, 1 flew ASTP, 1 flew Shuttle • 14 in Group 3 • 5 flew Gemini, 10 flew Apollo, 1 flew Skylab • 6 in Group 4: (Scientist-Astronauts) • 1 flew Apollo, 3 flew Skylab, 1 flew Shuttle • 19 in Group 5 (“The Original Nineteen”) • 9 flew Apollo, 4 flew Skylab, 1 flew ASTP, 7 flew Shuttle • 11 in Group 6 (the “Excess Eleven”) • 7 flew Shuttle • 7 in Group 7 (ex-Manned Orbiting Laboratory) • 7 flew Shuttle Discussion Groups • Chaikin Chapter 2 (“The Office”) • The culture of the Astronaut Office at Houston • Slayton Chapter 14 (“Flight Crew Operations”) • How the early Gemini astronauts got selected for a flight • Moonshot video • An astronaut-centered documentary (based on Sheppard’s book) https://apolloinrealtime.org/11.

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