3.7“How the future began.”/ October 20, 1983
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
“How the future began.”
Chuck Yeager
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
Gordon Cooper
Gus Grissom
Glennis Yeager
Pancho Barnes
Betty Grissom
Trudy Cooper
Deke Slayton
Scott Carpenter
Wally Schirra
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