A feature courtesy of The Grateful American Book Prize Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future.
On April 9, 1959—a year after NASA was established--seven American test pilots became the inaugural members of the U.S. Space Force. They were Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton.
The crew manned Project Mercury—the country’s inaugural space program, but the Force was not act...