Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Mercury 7

Mercury Seven

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Original – The Mercury Seven on 17 March 1960, Front row, left to right: Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

Reason

High quality image of the first astronauts in the first American spacesuits

Articles in which this image appears

Mercury Seven, Mercury spacesuit

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – Wcamp9 (talk) 01:10, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Technically subpar but it's semi-historic and good EV in the two articles it's in. Bammesk (talk) 03:38, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
• Support – ―Howard • 🌽³³ 15:23, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Moonreach (talk) 15:56, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
• Support.–Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 00:33, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:The Mercury 7 (15258556433).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:16, 14 November 2024 (UTC)