Mercury Seven
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Oct 3, 2026
CornHOST
Because I know you have it.
CornHOST
The first astronauts, the Mercury 7 and 59, were military jet pilots, and they had to be shorter than 5 foot 11.
CornHOST
Because of the capsule.
CornHOST
Because the capsule was that small.
Sue NelsonHOST
Now, Wally, as you probably know, was one of the all-women Mercury 13.
Sue NelsonHOST
The pilots all passed the same tough physical tests as the Mercury Seven men in the early 1960s, but unfortunately, only the men got the opportunity to become astronauts.
Sue NelsonHOST
Blue Origin memorably helped Wally realize her ambition to get into space in 2021.
Sue NelsonHOST
But her lifelong love and passion was always aviation.
Sue NelsonHOST
Now, Wally, as you probably know, was one of the all-women Mercury 13.
Sue NelsonHOST
The pilots all passed the same tough physical test as the Mercury 7 men in the early 1960s.
Sue NelsonHOST
But unfortunately, only the men got the opportunity to become astronauts.
Sue NelsonHOST
Blue Origin memorably helped Wally realise her ambition to get into space in 2021.
Ashley NicklausHOST
Someone else, my favorite movie growing up was The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe.
Ashley NicklausHOST
So some of my heroes were the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
Ashley NicklausHOST
that I thought, of course, they were test pilots to begin with, and then they became astronauts from the Air Force, Navy, and Marines, and best aviators out there.
Ashley NicklausHOST
They didn't have Chuck Yeager as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.
Ashley NicklausHOST
He never became an astronaut, but he was also one of my idols, Chuck Yeager.
Ashley NicklausHOST
He was the first one to break the sound barrier in the X-1 that he named after his wife, the glamorous Glynnis.
Ashley NicklausHOST
And it really was a matter of who was having dominance over space and how we could advance to show that we were ahead of each other.
Ashley NicklausHOST
We definitely wanted to be head of the USSR and show that we were the better nation.
M.P. PellicerHOST
NASA used it in 1959.
M.P. PellicerHOST
The Mercury 7 astronauts were introduced to the press in its ballroom.
M.P. PellicerHOST
The club bought the Townsend House in 1950 and moved in 1952.
M.P. PellicerHOST
The Stable and Coach House became an auditorium.
Brian EngelmanHOST
This is where aviation began, where two bicycle mechanics left the ground at Huffman Prairie and changed the world, where Ohioans like Neil Armstrong and John Glenn taught America to look up.
Brian EngelmanHOST
where more than two dozen astronauts have called home, where America's first astronauts, the Mercury 7, were put through their final testing in 1959.
Brian EngelmanHOST
To this day, America's astronauts come to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for training at the 711th Human Performance Wing, home of the School of Aerospace Medicine and the military's only human-rated centrifuge.
Brian EngelmanHOST
Today, Ohio unites to make our case to bring President Trump's vision for the Space Academy to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Wright State.
Elise StephensonGUEST
First astronauts going to space right up until today.
Elise StephensonGUEST
Women have only been one in 10 astronauts on average, despite the Mercury 13, those first women who were trained alongside the Mercury 7 astronauts.
Elise StephensonGUEST
They actually outperformed the Mercury 7 on many metrics.
Elise StephensonGUEST
You know, we're still in a reality where today only about 30% of public sector space agencies are represented by women, and that falls considerably when you come to leadership, so about 21% or 19%.
Elise StephensonGUEST
Now, that's a bit of a problem when we think about, OK, there are some long term decisions here.
Neil deGrasse TysonGUEST
And that was, to show you how old I am, one or two years before we landed on the moon.
Neil deGrasse TysonGUEST
So the astronauts that were selected, starting with the Mercury 7 and onward, they did not, that's not what attracted me to space.
Neil deGrasse TysonGUEST
It was clear that they weren't looking for me, just me.
Neil deGrasse TysonGUEST
Let me put it out there, okay? They were looking for some other mold that I did not fit.
MagnumHOST
Now, the astronauts follow a similar pattern as well at NASA.
MagnumHOST
Four of the original Mercury 7 astronauts were Scottish Rite Freemasons.
MagnumHOST
Of the 12 men who walked on the moon, at least three are confirmed Freemasons.
MagnumHOST
25% of the people who have been on the moon and walked on it are Freemasons.
Jonathan SackierHOST
So another question, um, and, and a follow on really.
Jonathan SackierHOST
During STS-95, that was one of the, the missions you flew on, you served as a physician to Senator John Glenn, um, who was one of the original American astronauts, the Mercury 7, right?
Scott ParazynskiGUEST
That's right.
Jonathan SackierHOST
At the time he was 77 and was the oldest astronaut.