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Original 7 Astronauts in Spa
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| Title |
Original 7 Astronauts in Spacesuits |
| Full Description |
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 |
09/13/1968 |
| NASA Center |
Langley Research Center |
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Project Mercury Astronauts
| Title |
Project Mercury Astronauts |
| Full Description |
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. They are: front row, left to right, Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter, back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper. |
| Date |
9/13/1968 |
| NASA Center |
Kennedy Space Center |
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