Project Mercury / Unidentified photographer

Virgil I. Grissom in spacesuit

October 18, 1966

Vintage photograph with black NASA number “G-60-2689” and NASA caption on the verso.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Lot Essay

Joe W. Schmitt, Technical Services Branch, Space Task Group, prepares Mercury Astronaut, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom for a series of pressure suit tests a NASA’s Mercury Headquarters, Langley Field, Virginia.

From NASA caption.