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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
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), "025 Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus "Grissom at the Hatch of the Centrifuge" (1961). Project Mercury Images. 25.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/mercury/25
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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