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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramOriginal Seven Project Mercury astronauts with U.S. Air Force F-106B jet aircraft.
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From left to right: Navy Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter; Air Force Capt. Leroy "Gordon" Cooper; Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.; Air Force Capt. Virgil I. Grissom; Navy Lt. Comdr. Walter M. Schirra, Jr.; Navy Lt. Comdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; and Air Force Major Donald K. Slayton.
The pilots were selected in 1959. The project ended in 1963.
Photonegative of a postcard, number 100981.
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