022 Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom

Creator

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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Identifier

F03_017_01

Date

January 1961

Description

This black and white photograph features astronaut Gus Grissom in his pressure suit standing at the hatch of a centrifuge. Dr. Randall Chambers kneels next to him in a suit. 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, Warminster (Pa.), Johnsville (Pa.), Grissom- Virgil I., Men, Astronauts, Chambers, Randall M., Human centrifuge

Rights

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

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Repository

Cosmosphere International SciEd Center

Comments

For questions contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu

Recommended Citation

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), "022 Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom" (1961). Project Mercury Images. 22.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/mercury/22

Language

eng

Transcription

Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom in his Mercury Pressure suit, wearing helmet and gloves, standing in the hatch of the U.S. Navy Human Centrifuge (Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory). Dr. Chambers is shown next to the hatch, as Project Director/ Project Officer of mercury-Redstone Acceleration Training, sponsored by the NASA-Space Task Group and the Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory, U.S. Naval Air Development Center. This picture was taken during "refresher training" in 1961. During this training, Gus flew the acceleration profile (13.5 g peak) of the Redstone, in which the capsule which was depressurized to 5 psi as the suit was pressurized.