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Mercury Project
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The group portrait of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project. NASA selected its first seven astronauts on April 27, 1959. Left to right at front: Walter M. Wally Schirra, Donald K. Deke Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter. Left to right at rear: Alan B. Shepard, Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury Project. NASA/MSFC, 1959-04-27. Public domain. ID: 6413212.
