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Identifier

F03_018_01

Date

January 1961

Description

This black and white photograph features astronaut Gus Grissom in his pressure suit inside the centrifuge just prior to the hatch closing. A man in a watch tower is in the background. 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, Human centrifuge

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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 Gus Grissom in training inside the Human Centrifuge, just prior to closing the hatch, visor closed, suit ready for inflation, centrifuge operations, open-loop and closed-loop, and instrument panel operated closed-loop, by remote computer system. (RE: Dr. Randall M. Chambers)

Keywords

Project Mercury (U.S.), Space flight, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Warminster (Pa.), Johnsville (Pa.), Grissom- Virgil I., Men, Astronauts, Human centrifuge

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