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MA-6
Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) was the third human spaceflight for the US and the first to orbit the Earth. John Glenn in Friendship 7 was launched Feb 20, 1962.
MA-6 Atlas Launch Team
The second photo below has the people numbered. The list of names is in work. Click on the photo to expand it until the numbers are legible.
If you can provide a name or a correction, please give us a comment in the form below. The people are numbered in three rows left to right. Refer to the row as front or bottom, middle, and back or top as well as the number when identifying an individual.
Names;
Front, Bottom
1 Maj. Jack Mulady
7 Capt. Jeffery Deutsch
11 Ray McCoy
12 Jim Weber
15 Dave Parrish
16 Les Campbell
18 Jim Rodriguez
21 Ken Newton
22 Sid Brooks
27 Harry Potter
30 John Glenn
31 Spence Henshaw
34 Tom O’Malley
35 Scott Carpenter
36 Harry Packer
45 Benjamin Franklin Price
Middle
1 Art Gaudet
4 Burt Benninghoff
21 Bob Baxter
34 John W. Steinmetz
35 George Downey
40 Gene Gilmore
46 Ott Meotti
48. Bill Heer
53 Bob Goldinger
Back, Top
1 Wilford “Bucket” Milikin
3. John Pope
4 Hank Croskeys
6 Jim Starkey
8 Basil Smith
9 Ed Stuart
12 Howard Marion
16 Jim Starkey
20 Jim Keatley
26 Jay Cooper
31 Ed McGee
39 Ben Price
43 Lee Solid
46 Paul Downey
53 Jerry Pruitt
54. Jerry Groah
MA-6 Mercury Capsule Blockhouse Launch Team
This Blockhouse Launch Team photograph is courtesy of J. L. Pickering.The list of names is in work. If you can provide names or corrections, please provide a comment in the box below. Click on the photo below to enlarge
Names:
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2. John Williams (?)
3. Paul Donnelly
4. H. H. Luetjen
5. Bill Mosley
6. Walt Kapryan
7. Karl Kovitz
8. (8,9,10,11-NASA Aeromed & Instrumentation)
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12. Bob Heine
13. John Otten
14. Jerry Roberts
15. Norm Beckel
16. Jim Means
MA-7
Names
1. M. Scott Carpenter
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MA-9
MA-9 Mercury Capsule Launch Team courtesy of Charlie Mars
The Yellow hats are NASA, and Green hats McDonald Douglas (except the two Astronauts).
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MA-9 Mercury Capsule Launch Team
1 Don Corcoran
2 Paul Donnelly
3 Gordon Cooper
4 Wally Schirra
5 Ralph Gendilee
6 Bill Mosely
13 Mark Guidry
16 Guy Witherington
22 Bob Heine
26 Bill Criddle
27 Jim Means
28 Bud Powell
35 Chuck Clary
36 Charlie Vaughn
42 Jim Walker
46 Bill Stelges
51 John Janokaitis
65 Larry Bell
70 Herb Crib
“Old Mercury Troops”
Picture taken at George M. Brashear’s retirement, Feb 25, 1999. George was a QC manager for NASA contractors for Mercury through Space Shuttle.
Left to right; George M. Brashear QC Supurvisor for Mercury through Space Shuttle, George Page NASA Manager, Tom O’malley Manager for Rockwell. Taken by C. T. Reece who was a QC Inspector on Mercury.
Does anyone remember J.B. Hunt
All I could come up with
H. H. “Luge” Luetjen
MA-6 Blockhouse
5-Bill Mosley
7-Karl Kovitz
8,9,10,11-NASA Aeromed and Instrumentation
12-Bob Heine
13-John Otten
14-Jerry Roberts
15-Norm Beckel
16-Jim Means
MA-6
5. Bill Mosely
14. Jerry Roberts
15. Norm Beckel
16. Jim Means
MA-9
5. Ralph Gendilee
How quickly we forget. Sorry Frank, that is all I could add. I am forwarding the email to Hulen Luetjen. He may be able to add more.