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Title
Space Men
Date
1959
Description
These four astronauts photographed on August 3, 1959 nearly two years before the first space flight, were the first Americans into space. From left to right: John H. Glenn (third up and first into orbit), Jr.,Virgil I. Grissom (second up), Alan B. Shepard, Jr (the first), and Malcolm S. Carpenter (fourth), at NASA at Langley Field, Virginia.
