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1959.
Project Mercury Astronauts, whose selection was announced on April 9,
1959, only six months after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
was formally established on October 1, 1958. They are: front row, left
to right, Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr.,
and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom,
and L. Gordon Cooper.
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