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Group shot of the original Mercury astronauts

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-mer00-00005

Date

2006-08-30

Image taken at the Manned Spacecraft Center (JSC), Houston, Texas. From left to right : Gordon Cooper, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, Donald Slayton and Scott Carpenter. Oct 21 1963.