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Unfortunately those making the noise seem to forget that at the time the Cold War was under way and NASA was very much in league with the military. So as much as these other people push their silly ideas on the subject NASA were never going to select people from anywhere but their own military...

True, Michael Collins name isn't that well known. He's the second most famous Michael Collins probably.

Well naturally they would be almost entirely men of European backgrounds given that's who developed the technology that lead to the achievement. So we can't celebrate things Europeans did now?

Thousands of people whose names will never be known worked on those projects and made them a success. They haven't been written out of the story, they were just not to the forefront. I mean do we know the names of any of the actual people that built the space ships? They kind of made it...

That's not quite how it went down They were never involved in the NASA program, they just did some privately funded testing. Unlike the Mercury 13 the Mercury 7 were all ex-Military pilots who were at the time all highly experienced test pilots. A qualification required for the job that I don't...