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The Cold War Home Front: The Space Race
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NASA Introduces the Mercury Astronauts
NASA Introduces the Mercury Astronauts
The Mercury Astronauts
April 9, 1959
 
78NASA Introduces the Mercury Astronauts
(Front row, left to right) Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter, (Back row, left to right) Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper.
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