If you grew up in Southern California, you know the look: blue-and-gold plates, opera windows glinting in the sun, and just enough chrome to catch a passerby’s eye on Wilshire. This ’79 Mercury Cougar ...
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How the 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 carved its own lane
The 1967 Mercury Cougar XR-7 arrived as a calculated answer to a question Detroit had barely started to ask: what if a pony car could feel genuinely upscale without losing its bite. Built on familiar ...
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April 9, 1959: The Mercury 7 debut
In 1959, having determined that military test pilots would make the best astronauts, NASA began screening the records of 508 candidates. From there the group was narrowed to 110 men who went through ...
Do you ever wonder how certain people buy one car and keep it forever? Me also, and this 1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7 is one of those rare machines that seems to bend the years out of shape. Showing just ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on April 9, 1959, as astronauts for the Mercury 7 mission were introduced to the American ...
“Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) [bio] an original Mercury 7 astronaut, died earlier today at his home in Ventura, Calif. He was 77 years old. Cooper piloted the sixth and last flight ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John ...
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