In 1961, Ed Dwight was a decorated Air Force pilot with a dream of traveling into space. He was nominated as a candidate for NASA’s early astronaut corps in 1961, just as NASA’s Project Mercury crewed flights were beginning. Much of the Mercury technology was crafted by McDonnell Corp., in St. Louis, and astronauts were […]
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