Portrait of NASA's Mercury Seven with the New Nine astronautsFebruary 1963Vintage gelatin silver print on fibre-based paper, 25.3 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in), BLACK NUMBERED NASA S-63-562Provenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:With the development of Gemini programme NASA enrolled further astronauts whose qualifications required advanced piloting and engineering skills. In addition to the original Mercury Seven (Group 1 astronauts, seated in the photograph from left to right: Gordon Cooper, G Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, John Glenn, Alan Shepard), Group 2, so called the New Nine was selected in September 1962 (all standing up in the photograph: Edward White, James McDivitt, John Young, Elliot See, Pete Conrad, Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, Thomas Stafford, and James Lovell).