Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection
Name of Image:
Dr. von Braun with Original Mercury Astronauts
Full Description:
Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's (ABMA) Development Operations Division, poses with the original Mercury astronauts in ABMA's Fabrication Laboratory during a 1959 visit. Inspecting Mercury-Redstone hardware are from left to right, Alan Shepard, Donald Deke Slayton, Virgil Gus Grissom, von Braun, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter. Project Mercury officially began October 7, 1958 as the United States' first manned space program.
Date of Image:
1959-01-01
Category:
Mercury Project
term:
von Braun
term:
Schirra
term:
Grissom
term:
Glenn
term:
Slayton
term:
Carpenter
term:
Shepard
term:
Cooper
term:
Mercury Astronauts
facet_who:
Dr. Wernher von Braun
facet_who:
Gordon Cooper
facet_who:
Wally Schirra
facet_who:
Deke Slayton
facet_who:
Scott Carpenter
facet_who:
Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
facet_who:
John H. Glenn
facet_what:
Mercury
facet_where:
Mercury
facet_where:
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
facet_where:
United States of America
facet_when:
October 7, 1958
facet_when_year:
1958
Reference Number:
MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
MIX #:
9801809
NIX #:
MSFC-9801809
MSFC Negative Number:
9801809
UID:
SPD-MARSH-9801809
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