Mercury astronauts Deke Slayton, Gordon Cooper, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, and Gus Grissom, pose with Robert Gilruth (center), Director of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, ca. 1963.

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