The astronauts of NASA's Project Mercury manned orbital flight programme and shown in the Mercury Control Central facility , Cape Canaveral. Behind the astronauts is a display on which will be plotted the spacecraft's location in orbit and data on functioning of its systems and the astronauts condition. L-R Astronauts Walter Schirra ; Donald Slayton ; Virgil Grissom ; Christopher C Craft of the Mercury Operations Division and Astronauts Gordon Cooper ; Scott Carpenter ; John Glenn and Alan Shepard 26th September 1960