Mercury Seven part-time student at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1956 to 1959. Both astronauts were ultimately awarded their bachelor's degrees after their 1962 space flights. NASA introduced the astronauts in Washington on April 9, 1959. Although the agency viewed Project Mercury's purpose as an experiment to determine whether humans could survive space travel, the seven men immediately became national heroes and were compared by "Time" magazine to "Columbus, Magellan, Daniel Boone, and the Wright brothers." Two hundred reporters overflowed the room used for the announcement and alarmed the astronauts, who were unused to such a large audience. Because they
Indian Group of Seven Indian Affairs. PNIAI was incorporated in February 1974 by all seven members. Haida artist Bill Reid, although not formally signing on at the time, was considered the eighth member and participated in some of the group's shows. The group was better known as the "Indian Group of Seven". The informal name was given to them by "Winnipeg Free Press" reporter Gary Scherbain, referring to the highly esteemed "Group of Seven" of the 1920s who painted Canadian landscapes in an impressionistic style. The "Indian Group of Seven" had many joint exhibitions in Canada. The last in which all participated was in