Missile Atlas 57F Test code named Crash Truck launches from the launch pad. Missile moves upward and explodes during the flight. Missile parts descend from the sky.
Missile Atlas 57F test code named Crash Truck launches from the launch pad. Smoke and fire rises as the missile takes off. Explosion in the sky during its flight. Missile part descends from sky. (Note: An electrical short in the missile programmer resulted in failure of the roll maneuver, preventing the Atlas from attaining the proper flight trajectory. The Range Safety destruct command was sent at T+57 seconds.)
Future Project Mercury astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton undergoes psychological and stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Astronaut undergoes a treadmill test. Subject walks at a constant rate on a moving treadmill which is elevated one degree each minute. The test continues until heart beat reaches 180 beats per minute.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut candidate Lt. Hal R. Crandall, USN, undergoes equilibrium and vibration stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. He must keep the chair upright while blind-folded, and the chair vibrates at a high-frequency.
NASA Project Mercury candidate Major Hal W. Christian Jr., USAF undergoes physical testing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Doctors measure candidate's pulse and blood pressure before he undergoes a test on the Tilt Table which is visible on the right hand side of the photo.
NASA Project Mercury candidate Captain James W. Wood, USAF, undergoes psychological and stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Doctors measure candidate's pulse and blood pressure before and after a "Flack" test. The subject must blow continuously into a tube to maintain a column of mercury at a specified level for as long as possible.
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