File:The Mercury 7 (15258556433).jpg

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Description On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its first astronaut class, the Mercury 7. Front row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Date Taken on 17 March 1960
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The group portrait of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project in 1960. Left to right at front: Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John H. Glenn, and Scott Carpenter. Back row, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and Gordon Cooper.

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