Project Mercury Images
 

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Identifier

F03_014_01

Date

January 1961

Description

This black and white photograph features astronaut Alan B. Shepard in his pressure suit and is being prepped on his contour couch. Printed text is below the photograph.

Physical Description

black and white photograph

Keywords

Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Men, Astronauts, Space suits, Shepard- Alan B. (Alan Bartlett) 1923-1998

Rights

This material is free from copyright under Sections 101 and 105 of the United States Copyright Act.

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

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Language

eng

Transcription

Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, in his Mercury pressure suit, suit inflated and visor closed, seated in his contour couch, just shortly before his Mercury-Redstone suborbital flights. Gus Grissom, was almost in the same situation. (RE: Dr. Randall M. Chambers)

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Keywords

Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Men, Astronauts, Space suits, Shepard- Alan B. (Alan Bartlett) 1923-1998

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