Three Are Left
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: Debate Replay
Topic: History
With Gordon Cooper's death on Monday, only three of the original Mercury astronauts are still alive.

I grew up intensely interested in the space program. The space flights were covered exhaustively by the media. For a time, I even had a record of the highlights of John Glenn's three orbit flight. I wonder how much that would be worth now?

John Glenn, Scott Carpenter and Wally Schirra are the three remaining original astronauts.