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English: Project Mercury Astronauts, whose selection was announced on April 9, 1959, only six months after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formally established on October 1, 1958. Front row, left to right, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper.
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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