55 Years Ago: NASA Group 7 Astronaut Selection

On Aug. 14, 1969, NASA announced the selection of seven new astronauts. The Group 7 astronauts consisted of pilots transferred from the Manned Orbital Laboratory MOL Program canceled two months earlier. The MOL, a joint project of the U.S. Air Force USAF and the National Reconnaissance Office, sought to obtain high-resolution photographic imagery of Americas 8230;. https://www.nasa.gov/histo...
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