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The Mercury Seven in 1960. "History of Rocketry & Space Travel" by Wernher Von Braun & Frederick Ordway (1966)

The first seven astronauts selected for Project Mercury. Shown here in space suits, they are (front row, left to right) Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, (back row) Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

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Uploaded on April 26, 2015
Taken on April 22, 2015