Mercury Astronaut team at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) press conference in Washington DC. Astronauts named Lt Malcom S Carpenter, Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, United States Air Force; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF take their place on stage for the conference. NASA logo on a curtain in the background. Photographers take pictures. Astronauts stand with a model spacecraft in their hands.
Mercury Astronaut team at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) press conference in Washington DC. Dr T Keith Glennam Administrator of NASA; Robert Gilruth, Director of Project Mercury and of the Space Task Force Group; Dr Randolph Lovelace, Chairman of the NASA Life Sciences Committee; Brigadier General Donald Flickinger; Captain Norman Barr, United States Navy and Charles Donlam give a brief speech. Astronauts named Lt Malcom S Carpenter, Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, United States Air Force; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF stand and sit on the stage.
Mercury Astronaut team at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) press conference in Washington DC. Astronauts Lt Malcom S Carpenter, Captain Leroy G Cooper Junior, United States Air Force; Lt Colonel John H Glenn, United States Marine Corps; Captain Virgil I Grissom, United States Air Force; Lt Commander Walter M Schirra, United States Nations; Lt Commander Alan B Shepard and Captain Donald K Slayton, USAF answer reporters' questions. Journalists take notes. NASA logo in the background.
View of nose of Atlas 11F. The service structure removed from Atlas Missile 11F for its launch. Technicians on the ground watch and clear the area. M-45 camera tracking mount with Atlas Missile 11F blowing up in the background. Explosion on ground with black smoke.
NASA Project Mercury astronaut Lieutenant M. Scott Carpenter, USN, undergoes a centrifuge test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Technicians strap astronaut into centrifuge chamber. The centrifuge rotates on axis in a circular motion.
Prospective NASA Project Mercury astronaut, Captain Richard M. Corbett, undergoes centrifuge test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Subject enters centrifuge chamber and lies down in horizontal position.
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