MERCURY SEVEN


Original seven Astronauts portrait (Back row, L-R: Shepard, Grissom, Cooper; Front row, L-R: Schirra, Slayton, Glenn, Carpenter). Note that Slayton and Glenn are wearing work boots that were spray-painted.

(L to R) Cooper, Schirra, Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Slayton and Carpenter

The 'Mercury Seven' was the group of seven Mercury astronauts picked by National Aeronautics and Space Administration in April 1959. They are also referred to as the 'Original Seven' and 'Astronaut Group 1'. This was the only astronaut group with members that flew on all NASA manned spacecraft of the 20th century, including the Space Shuttle with John Glenn's flight on STS-95. The astronauts wrote first-hand accounts of their selection and preparation for the Mercury missions in the 1962 book ''We Seven''. In 1979 Tom Wolfe published a less sanitized version of their story in ''The Right Stuff''. Wolfe's book was the basis for the popular film directed by Philip Kaufman.

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Astronauts selected
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Astronauts selected



★ Malcolm Scott Carpenter (1925– ) Mercury-Atlas 7

★ Leroy Gordon Cooper (1927–2004) Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini 5

★ John H. Glenn Jr. (1921– ) Mercury-Atlas 6, STS-95

★ Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967) Mercury-Redstone 4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1

★ Walter M. "Wally" Schirra (1923–2007) Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7

★ Alan B. Shepard (1923–1998) Mercury-Redstone 3, Apollo 14

★ Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993) Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

See also



★ List of astronauts by selection newest astronauts

★ Man In Space Soonest

★ Astronaut Group 2

★ Astronaut Group 3

★ Mercury 13

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