Mercury Astronauts
author: Nasa/Novapix
reference: e-mer00-00004
Image Size 300 DPI: 20 * 14 cm
The original Mercury Astronauts are pictured around a table admiring an Atlas model. Standing, left to right are Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and John H. Glenn, Jr.; sitting, left to right are Virgil I. Grissom, M. Scott Carpenter, Donald Slayton, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.