In 1959, NASA presented its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, died in Phoenix, Arizona.
In a momentous week in 1959, the landscape of American space exploration was indelibly marked when NASA unveiled its first cohort of astronauts.
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