European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 15, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse E in space the new Breed of astronaut a the new Breed of astronaut or. John a. Llewellyn a 34-year-old chemist. By Ronald Thompson a staff writer when the search began for men Tolly America s space machines officials sought the toughest most experienced test pilots they could find men with combat under their wondered could Man perform in this new environment recalled Marine col. John h. Glenn or Retone of the original seven Mercury Pilot Sand the first american to orbit Earth. Nobody knew. To see if he could they wanted peo ple who had worked in As wild an environment you could get. They wanted men with a lot of combat time and a lot of test flying where weird that was 1959, the old Days in . Space program two years after the space age opened with Russia s launch ing of sputnik i. But 16 manned spaceflight and 2,000man hours aloft have brought about a natural evolution in the kind of Man picked for trips into that once forbidden alien world. Man now knows that if Given the right equipment he can live and work in space. Thus once reserved Only for
