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Images by Wally Schirra of Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
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Wally Schirra Greets Dr. Wer
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Wally Schirra Greets Dr. Wernher von Braun |
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Apollo 7 Commander Walter M. Schirra, Jr., left, greets Dr. Wernher Von Braun, Director, Marshall Space Flight Center and Dr. Kurt Debus, Right, KSC Director, during a prelaunch mission briefing held at the Florida Spaceport. |
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10/10/1968 |
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Kennedy Space Center |
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The Original Seven Astronaut
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The Original Seven Astronauts in Front of an Air Force Jet |
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2004-04-15 |
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The original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project pose in front of an Air Force Jet. From left to right: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Gus Grissom, Walter M. Wally Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, and Donald K. Deke Slayton. |
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Dr. von Braun with Original
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Dr. von Braun with Original Mercury Astronauts |
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1959-01-01 |
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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. |
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Dr. von Braun Meeting With S
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Dr. von Braun Meeting With Schirra, Glenn, Lovell and Others |
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1962-09-01 |
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NASA officials from Headquarters and the astronauts often met with Dr. von Braun in Huntsville, Alabama. This photograph was taken in September 1962 during one such visit. From left to right are Elliot See, Tom Stafford, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, Brainerd Holmes, Dr. von Braun, and Jim Lovell. |
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Original Seven Astronauts
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Original Seven Astronauts |
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1959-04-27 |
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The group portrait of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project. NASA selected its first seven astronauts on April 27, 1959. Left to right at front: Walter M. Wally Schirra, Donald K. Deke Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter. Left to right at rear: Alan B. Shepard, Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. |
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