Virgil Grissom in Space Suit
(Original Caption) 4/22/1960-Johnsville, PA-Wearing a Project Mercury full pressure suit, astronaut Captain Virgil Ivan Grissom, USAF, of Mitchell, Indiana, is shown prior to being subjected to the Mercury-type accelaration and low pressure time profiles in the gondola of the human centrifuge. Project Mercury is the U.S. manned orbital flight program directed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

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