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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;
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The original seven Mercury Astronauts during training at NASA Langley Research Center. ... The original seven Mercury Astronauts during training at NASA Langley Research Center. (L-R Back) Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Grodon Cooper; (Front) Walter Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter...
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The original Mercury astronauts - John Glenn, Virgil Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Donald Deke Slayton, Virgil Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Donald Deke Slayton, Gordon CooperGordon Cooper. ... The original Mercury astronauts - John Glenn, Virgil Gus Grissom,
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The original Mercury astronauts are pictured around a table admiring an Atlas model. Standing, left to right are Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and John H. Glenn, Jr.; ... In Search of History: Mercury 13: The Secret Astronauts DVD Project Mercury : ... M. Scott Carpenter Biography - Original Mercury 7 Astronaut...
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NASA had suggested a mixed bag of men to make up the first corps of astronauts who would go into space. It suggested scientists and engineers — civilians — as perhaps the best suited for the task. But Eisenhower, who had some personal experience with the hero business, knew better.
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SAN DIEGO — Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, died today. He was 84.
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Dr. Von Braun, right, worked directly with America's first seven astronauts. This photo is believed to have been taken about 1959 in the Fabrication Laboratory of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Huntsville.
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NASA's original seven astronauts were joined by "The New Nine" in 1962, including future moonwalkers Neil Armstrong, Charles Conrad and John Young. Fourteen more were recruited a year later, including Alan Bean and Buzz Aldrin.
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The youngest of the original seven astronauts, Cooper's flight in his Faith 7 spacecraft stretched the capabilities of the Mercury capsule to the limits. The mission, May 15 and 16, 1963, lasted more than 34 hours and 22 orbits.
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