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Name of Image:
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Original Seven Astronauts
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MIX #:
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6413212
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NIX #:
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MSFC-6413212
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Date of Image:
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1959-04-27
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Category:
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Mercury Project
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Full Description:
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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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(MRPO) MRD/SPD Discipline(s):
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n/a
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(MRPO) Subject Type:
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n/a
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Keywords:
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Original Seven Astronauts, Mercury Project, Schirra, Slayton, Glenn, Carpenter, Shepard, Grissom, Cooper
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MSFC Negative Number:
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6413212
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Reference Number:
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MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
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