Answer to "Who Are They?"

Here's a more familiar picture of the men from the Who Are They? post. They are of course the seven Mercury astronauts looking lots better here in their shiny space suits!

In the Who Are They post from Thursday, February 22, 2007:

The seven original Mercury astronauts had participated in U.S. Air Force survival school at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. Picture from left to right are L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, John H. Glenn, Jr., Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. Portions of their clothing had been fashioned from parachute material, and all had grown beards from their time in the wilderness. The purpose of this training was to prepare astronauts in the event of an emergency or faulty landing in a remote area.