Dagens bilde - The Right Stuff! - De orginale Mercury 7 astronautene foran en F-106 Delt Dart

Oransje suiter er Navy gutta. Resten er Air Force i blå NASA suiter, men sjekk skoene! Merk også at de står i alfabetisk rekkefølge: CCGGSSS(Red.)

The Mercury Seven were the group of seven Mercury astronauts announced by NASA on October 7, 1958.^[2] They are also referred to as the Original Seven or Astronaut Group 1. They piloted the manned spaceflights of the Mercury program from May 1961 to May 1963. These seven original American astronauts were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.
Members of the group flew on all classes of NASA manned orbital spacecraft of the 20th century — Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle. Gus Grissom died in 1967, in the Apollo 1 fire. The others all survived past retirement from service. John Glenn went on to become a U.S. senator, and flew on the Shuttle 36 years later to become the oldest person to fly in space. He was the last living member of the class when he died in 2016.^[3]