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Preview
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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
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
Recommended Citation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), "023 Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom in the Human Centrifuge" (1961). Project Mercury Images. 23.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/mercury/23
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
Comments
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