johnglenn

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

great

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

Six of the 7 Mercury astronauts arrive at Convair in San Diego in September of 1959. From left, Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard and Gordon Cooper. On the day this picture was taken, who could have foreseen their fates? With the exception of Carpenter, all of these men flew into space at least twice. Wally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Gus Grissom flew on Mercury and Gemini, but died in the tragic Apollo 1 fire in 1967. Alan Shepard walked on the moon in 1971. John Glenn is both the first (1962) and oldest (1998) American to orbit the earth, and the only Mercury astronaut to fly on the space shuttle, get elected to Congress, and be a candidate for Vice-President (1976) and President (1984), losing the latter to Walter Mondale. (Mondale polled 49%, Glenn, 41%, so he was close. One has to wonder - if Glenn had been nominated in 1984, would he have beaten Ronald Reagan, and what effect would that have had on world history?)

And John Glenn to Carpenter's left with his back to the camera.