They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,John Glenn,Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra,Alan Shepard and Donald Slayton.

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Navy pilot Scott Carpenter, for example, was well trained in communications and navigation.

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"Internet-enabled technology, that which networks us together, has done a huge amount for humanity in general, " Scott Carpenter, the principal at Google Ideas, said at the Oslo Freedom Forum earlier this year, according to a live blog.

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Even the surviving Mercury astronauts--a plumpish Wally Schirra, a leathery Scott Carpenter, a frail Gordon Cooper--were there, showing the colors the way they always did when a member of their elite fraternity was setting out on a mission that would kill him or not, but in either event would provide him with that transcendent thrill he got nowhere else.

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CNN's Scott Thompson and Jake Carpenter contributed to the report.

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