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Mercury Seven at State Department
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Mercury Seven at State Department

NASA / JSC · 2008-06-24 · photograph (digital archive)

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S61-02357 (8 May 1961) --- The original seven Mercury astronauts at the State Department Auditorium on May 8, 1961. The astronauts are (left to right) Donald K. Slayton, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, Virgil I. Grissom, John H. Glenn, Jr. and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Earlier President John F. Kennedy had presented astronaut Shepard with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (note it on his lapel) in the White House Rose Garden.

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Credit lineMercury Seven at State Department. NASA/JSC, 2008-06-24. Public domain. ID: S61-02357.
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