IMAGE 800_899\889.Lbm,The monument at the now dismantled Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, the site of the first US manned launches in the early 1960s. The symbol 7 refers to the Original Seven Mercury astronauts.
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 200_299\294.Lbm,A board at the site of launch complex 14 at Cape Canaveral, site of the Mercury launches into space, lists the first Americans in orbit. At left is a monument to the "Original Seven".
IMAGE 500_599\599.Lbm,A memorial plaque at the site of Complex 14 at Kennedy Space Center, from where the 'Original Seven' Mercury astronauts were launched.
IMAGE 800_899\887.Lbm,An interesting piece of space history. The names of the Original Seven Mercury astronauts are written in tiles on the bottom of the pool at the Cape Colony Inn in Cocoa Beach, where they once stayed.
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\71.Lbm,The US and Soviet crews chosen for the ASTP mission in July 1975. They are (from the left): Donald Slayton, one of the Original Seven astronauts, Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand for the USA; Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov for the USSR.
IMAGE 800_899\806.Lbm,Gordon Cooper, suited up for space, checks the fit of the couch that will be installed in his Mercury capsule.
IMAGE 800_899\807.Lbm,A spacesuited Donald Slayton during training for a Mercury space flight, which for him never materializes.
IMAGE 800_899\854.Lbm,Two of the Original Seven Mercury astronauts on a survival exercise in the early 1960s.
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 0_99\46.Lbm,John Glenn, pictured in 1964. He made the first US flight into orbit in Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. His lapel badge signifies he is one of the "Original Seven" Mercury astronauts.
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.
