File:Mercury Seven at State Department.jpg
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| Description | The original seven Mercury astronauts at the State Department Auditorium on May 8, 1961. The astronauts are (left to right) Donald K. Slayton, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, Virgil I. Grissom, John H. Glenn, Jr. and Alan B. Shepard, Jr. Earlier President John F. Kennedy had presented astronaut Shepard with the NASA Distinguished Service Medal (note it on his lapel) in the White House Rose Garden. | |||||
| Date | Taken on 8 May 1961 | |||||
| Source | https://images.nasa.gov/details/S61-02357 | |||||
| Author | NASA | |||||
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- Astronauts with the national flag of the United States in background
- Black and white photographs of men wearing neckties
- Black and white photographs of sitting men in Washington, D.C.
- Black and white photographs of the national flag of the United States
- Black and white photographs of Washington, D.C. in the 1960s
- Crossed arms (right over left)
- Events at the Harry S. Truman Building
- Group photographs of the Mercury Seven
- May 1961 in Washington, D.C.
- Men wearing lapel pins
- Men wearing neckties in Washington, D.C.
- Men with crossed arms
- Men with short hair
- 1961 black and white portrait photographs of men
- People at the Harry S. Truman Building
- Photographs of flags of the United States in Washington, D.C.
- Sitting with arms folded across chest
- Sitting with legs crossed (knee-on-knee)
- 20th-century black and white group portrait photographs of men
- 20th-century black and white portrait photographs of sitting men at full length
- Deke Slayton in 1961
- Wally Schirra in 1961
- Gordon Cooper in 1961
- Scott Carpenter in 1961
- Gus Grissom in 1961
- John Glenn in 1961
- Alan Shepard in 1961