that when The Papers of Benjamin Franklin is completed, it is expected to contain approximately 30,000 writings in 47 volumes? that Tala Bashmi played on the Bahrain women's national football team for seven years before opening a restaurant in a Manama hotel? that Thomas Moran's 1872 painting The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (pictured) influenced the decision to preserve Yellowstone National Park for future generations? The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (1872) ( This article is part of a featured topic: NASA Astronaut Group 2.) Seven of the nine were awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Six of the nine flew to the Moon (Lovell and Young twice), and Armstrong, Conrad and Young walked on it as well. The nine were Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Pete Conrad, Jim Lovell, James McDivitt, Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Ed White and John Young. The Mercury Seven had been selected for the simpler task of orbital flight, but the challenges of space rendezvous and lunar landing led to the selection of candidates with advanced engineering degrees (for four of the nine) as well as test pilot experience. President Kennedy had announced Project Apollo, with the goal of putting a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, and more astronauts were required to fly the two-person Gemini spacecraft and three-person Apollo spacecraft then under development. NASA Astronaut Group 2 was the second group of astronauts selected by NASA their names were announced on September 17, 1962.
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