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Identifier

F03_020_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. He has one foot on the centrifuge. 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, standing in his Mercury Pressure suit at the hatch of the Human Centrifuge, Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory, during training for his Mercury-Redstone flight 1961. In many of these acceleration runs, the cabin altitude pressure was reduced to 5 psi and the suit was pressurized with and without added oxygen pressure, including emergency oxygen. (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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