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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramOriginal Seven Project Mercury astronauts standing beside U.S. Air Force Convair F-106B jet aircraft.
Image Number
PC12751
Photographer
United States. - National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Date
1959 (circa)
Rights
Collection
Postcard collection
Publication Information
Aerographics, Inc., Between 1959 and 1963.
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
1 postcard - col. - 9 x 14 cm.
General Note
From left to right: Navy Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter; Air Force Capt. Leroy "Gordon" Cooper; Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.; Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Grissom; Navy Lt. Comdr. Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; Navy Lt. Comdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; and Air Force Major Donald K. Slayton.
The pilots were selected in 1959. The project ended in 1963.
Original Seven Project Mercury astronauts standing beside U.S. Air Force Convair F-106B jet aircraft.
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