<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/735e7e9e-bbc8-409f-bd90-c9c4db300e8c/309BDA87-1104-4664-A66A-DC4544611764/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-nasas-first-astronauts/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-nasas-first-astronauts/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-nasas-first-astronauts/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/45776DBD-52E8-40D8-895A-2BB18B69DE34" alt="NASA introduced the first seven astronauts on April 9, 1959." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-nasas-first-astronauts/">This week marks the 50th anniversary of the “<A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/mercury/">Mercury</A> Seven;” NASA’s first seven astronauts. On April 9, 1959 NASA held a press conference in Washington, DC to introduce the men — Gus Grissom, Alan Shephard, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn and Gordon Cooper. They would become household names in the US and media sensations. “I can’t believe it’s been that long,” John Glenn said in an interview with an Ohio newspaper, the <A href="http://www.zanesvilletimesrecorder.com/article/20090405/NEWS01/904050302/1002">Zanesville Times Recorder</A>. “The experience back then of being selected and participating in the early flights is so vivid to me, it seems like this all happened a couple of weeks ago. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-nasas-first-astronauts/"><P>NASA has created a very cool <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/50th_announcement/">interactive feature to celebrate this 50th anniversary</A>, including an interactive “press conference,” a transcript and video clips of the original press conference, and a gallery of pictures. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/06/50th-anniversary-of-nasas-first-astronauts/"><P><SPAN id="more-28666"></SPAN> The Mercury flights proved than humans could survive in space, and paved the way for the Gemini and Apollo flights. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/309BDA87-1104-4664-A66A-DC4544611764/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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