Remembering History: (L-R) Six of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts: Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra, press conference, 1961.

(L-R) Six of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts: Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra, press conference, 1961.

(L-R) Six of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts: Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra, press conference, 1961.