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Mercury 7 signed photo. NASA's original 7-member crew poses here with a Mercury Atlas model at the Langley Research Center for a photo shoot in 1959. Each of the distinguished group members sign the lower margin in blue and black ink: ''Alan B Shepard Jr.'', Walter M. Schirra Jr.'', ''John H. Glenn, Jr.'', ''Virgil I. Grissom'', ''M. Scott Carpenter'', ''Donald K. Slayton'' and ''Leroy G. Cooper, Jr''. Inscribed at top right corner, ''To Billy with best wishes from the Mercury Astronauts''. 10'' x 8'' photo has a matte finish. Significant tear forming vertically along fold running through photo, else very good.