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July 18, 2007 4:00 AM PDT

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Early space suits were shiny, and somewhat more svelte. These are the original seven Mercury astronauts, in a picture from July 1962. (Front row, left to right: Walter Schirra Jr., Donald Slayton, John Glenn Jr. and Scott Carpenter. Back row, left to right: Alan Shepard Jr., Virgil Grissom and Gordon Cooper Jr.)

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