“We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Astronauts Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, and Wally Schirra photographed by Ralph Morse at a press conference on 1 February 1961.