Project Mercury / Unidentified photographer

Recovery of training capsule

September 13, 1961

Vintage photograph with NASA HQ caption with identifying number "60-M-29" on the verso and a green National Aeronautics & Space Administration stamp.
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Pensacola, Florida – Project Mercury Astronaut Captain Virgil I. Grissom squeezes out the narrow neck of the egress training capsule and rips open survival kit which contains inflatable one-man life raft, portable emergency radio transmitter, and other survival gear.

From NASA caption.