NASA Photo ID: S63-00562           File Name: 10074701.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 BW                  Date Taken: 01/01/63
Title: Portrait of Astronaut Groups 1 and 2
Description:
Portrait of Astronaut Groups 1 and 2. The original seven Mercury astronauts 
selected by NASA in April 1959, are seated (left to right): L. Gordon
Cooper  Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, M. Scott Carpenter, Water M. Schirra Jr.,
John H.  Glenn Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. The second
group of  NASA astronauts, which were named in September, 1962, are
standing (left to  right): Edward H. White II, James A. McDivitt, John W.
Young, Elliot M. See  Jr., Charles Conrad Jr., Frank Borman, Neil A.
Armstrong, Thomas P. Stafford,  and James A. Lovell Jr.              

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ASTRONAUTS                              
PORTRAIT                                

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