A group portrait of the Mercury Seven astronauts wearing spacesuits. They are Front row, left to right: Walter Schirra., Donald "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan Shepard, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Gordon Cooper

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