File:Project Mercury Astronauts - GPN-2000-000651.jpg

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English: 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.

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17 March 1960

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current	01:52, 9 July 2010	2,400 × 3,000 (7.41 MB)	Craigboy	Further cleaned up image
	16:11, 27 May 2010	2,400 × 3,000 (7.41 MB)	Craigboy	cleaned up image
	08:33, 2 April 2010	2,400 × 3,000 (7.4 MB)	Craigboy	Removed green tint
	23:48, 8 April 2009	2,400 × 3,000 (7.19 MB)	BotMultichillT	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=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