IMAGE 100_199\127.Lbm,The Original Seven Mercury astronauts in their spacesuits. The astronauts are (from the left, back row): Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper; (front row) Walter Schirra, Donald Slayton, John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
IMAGE 0_99\50.Lbm,The Original Seven Mercury astronauts pictured in front of one of their F-102 jet trainers in March 1961. They are (from the left): Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.
IMAGE 0_99\14.Lbm,Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 rides the Mercury-Redstone rocket as it soars from the Cape Canaveral launch pad on May 5, 1961.
IMAGE 800_899\855.Lbm,The Redstone rocket boosts the Mercury capsule Freedom 7 from the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Alan Shepard begins a 15-minute suborbital hop into space and back.
IMAGE 500_599\550.Lbm,Alan Shepard is winched aboard the recovery helicopter following his successful suborbital flight in the Mercury capsule Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961.
IMAGE 100_199\122.Lbm,At a ceremony at the White House, President John F Kennedy congratulates Alan Shepard on his flight into space in Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961. Other Mercury astronauts look on.
