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Project Mercury: The Seven

Project Mercury: The Seven

A group portrait of the seven Project Mercury astronauts. Top: Wally Schirra; Alan Shepard; middle: John Glenn; Scott Carpenter; Donald "Deke" Slayton; bottom: Leroy "Gordo" Cooper; Gus Grissom.

In this photo: Alan B. Shepard, Walter M. Schirra, Virgil I. Grissom, Malcolm S. Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn

Photo: Ralph Morse/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Sep 14, 1959
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