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You have several of the astronauts' names wrong. Left to right: Schirra - Cooper - Shepard - Grissom - Glenn - Carpenter - Slayton

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The written record suggests that this was at Wallops. This is anecdotally supported by that fact that there really was no need to travel all of the way to Rosie Roads to complete basic open-water training, especially with all of the other activities and training occurring at Langley, Johnsville, the Cape, and factory visits at Kearney Mesa and Marshall and STL during this same time. Doesn't make much sense.

At the time UDT training in the East Coast was held at Little Creek, VA, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

E G This location also mentions the location on being Virginia. www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000942.html

The aircraft the Mercury Seven are standing in front of (Convair F-106B Delta Dart, AF 59-0158) escaped being blown out of the sky as a target drone and was recently restored. It now sits on display in Century Circle at Edwards Air Force Base. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x70VvAeQ5X0 www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123066163 Links to the original photo: grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001286.html grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/MEDIUM/GPN-2000-001286.jpg

Great photo, they were some guys.

While some of the astronauts in the photo flew on Gemini missions, this photo should be labeled as the Original Mercury 7 astronauts -not Gemini astronauts.