Which of the following supporting details would best support an expository essay section titled "Popularity of the Early Astronauts"?

After their successful spaceflights, Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and
John Glenn received ticker tape parades usually reserved for sports icons
or war heroes.
The first round of astronaut tryouts yielded seven candidates to fly
spacecraft in the Mercury program, though only six of these men would
actually reach space this time around.
On May 8, 1961, President John F. Kennedy presented NASA's Distinguished
Service Medal to astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American in space.
The men who would become the first astronauts - all of them military
pilots in one form or another - underwent a battery of intense physical
and psychological testing.