TEXT: Seven astronauts in training at Langley Research Center, Va., pose on July 7, 1959, with a model of the capsule one of them may ride into space in 1961. From Left to right are Air force Capt. Virgil Grissom, Air Force Capt. Donald Slayton, Air Force Capt. Beroy Cooper, Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn, Navy Lt. Malcolm Carpenter, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Alan Shapard and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Walter Schirra. (AP Photo/CPG)