COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection
Record
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
Subject Category:
Mercury-Astronaut
Keywords:
Alan
Keywords:
Astronauts
Keywords:
Carpenter
Keywords:
Cooper
Keywords:
Deke
Keywords:
Donald
Keywords:
Glenn
Keywords:
Gordo
Keywords:
Gordon
Keywords:
Grissom
Keywords:
Gus
Keywords:
John
Keywords:
Mercury
Keywords:
Schirra
Keywords:
Scott
Keywords:
Shepard
Keywords:
Slayton
Keywords:
Virgil
Keywords:
Wally
Keywords:
Walter
Audience:
General Public
facet_what:
Mercury
facet_where:
Langley Research Center (LaRC)
facet_where:
Mercury
facet_who:
Gordon Cooper
facet_who:
Scott Carpenter
facet_when:
09-13-1968
facet_when:
April 9, 1959
facet_when:
October 1, 1958
facet_when_year:
1958
facet_when_year:
1959
facet_when_year:
1968
Image #:
L-1989-00361
UID:
SPD-GRIN-GPN-2000-001293
Center:
LARC
Center Number:
L-1989-00361
GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-001293
Creator-Photographer:
NASA
Original Source:
DIGITAL
