The Original Seven Mercury Astronauts

Writing by Chris on Wednesday, 30 of May , 2007 at 2:58 pm

I bet they couldn’t get through airport security looking like that now.

From left to right: L. Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra and Donald K. Slayton

In this 1960 photograph, the seven original Mercury astronauts participate in U.S. Air Force survival training exercises at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. Pictured from left to right are: L. Gordon Cooper, M. Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter Schirra and Donald K. Slayton.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_832.html

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