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
Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven Painted Land: In Search of the Group of Seven is a Canadian 2015 documentary film written by Nancy Lang and directed by Phyllis Ellis. It tells the daring story of three adventurers who travel through the Canadian terrain to arrive at different landscapes that have famously been painted before, and allows them to appreciate the spirituality and artistry behind the paintings, and their natural locations. The title refers to the Group of Seven, a group of Canadian landscape artists who were active 1920-1933. The film was an official selection at the