Prospective NASA Project Mercury astronaut, Captain Richard M. Corbett, undergoes centrifuge test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Subject lies in centrifuge chamber in horizontal position.
Prospective NASA Project Mercury astronaut Captain Richard M. Corbett undergoes centrifuge test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Doctor examines astronaut in the centrifuge chamber. The chamber rotates on axis in circular motion.
Prospective NASA Project Mercury astronaut Captain Richard M. Corbett, USAF, undergoes altitude chamber test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Mercury Astronaut seated on chair wearing helmet and pressure suit. Technician affixes straps before the test.
Prospective NASA Project Mercury astronaut Lt. M. Scott Carpenter, USN, in altitude chamber at Wright -Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Subject is wearing helmet and pressure suit is seated on a chair. Technician checks instruments strapped on the astronaut.
Prospective NASA Project Mercury astronaut Captain Richard M. Corbett, USAF, in altitude chamber at Wright -Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Subject wearing helmet and pressure suit is seated on a chair. He gives hand signals during the test. Astronaut candidate Corbett smiles and talks.
Views of various projects depicting man's creative engineering skills across the United States, including: The Indian Serpent Mounts, Ohio; Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Headquarters, Connecticut; Mackinac Bridge, Michigan; Green Bank Radio Astronomy Antenna, West Virginia; Tanker "Manhattan" in the Northwest Passage; Chicago's Marina Towers, Illinois; NASA launch complex 39 in Cape Canaveral, Florida with a rocket in place; Watts tower, California; John Hancock Building, Illinois; Washington Monument; Dworshak Dam while under construction, Idaho; Newport Bridge, Rhode Island; U.S. Steel building, Pennsylvania; Mt. Glory Arch Bridge under construction in Wyoming; Johnson Wax Headquarters building, Wisconsin; Boeing 747 Factory Building Complex, Seattle Washington; A model of the proposed New Orleans Super Dome in Louisiana; Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel; Dulles International Airport, Virginia; Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minnesota; Westinghouse Headquarters building, Pennsylvania; Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, New Mexico; Gulf Life Tower, Florida; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Wisconsin; a paddle style River boat on the Ohio River; an artist depiction of the under construction Mobile River Highway Tunnel, Alabama; the Westinghouse Desalinization Plant, Florida; Model of master plan for the city of Gary, Indiana; Gulf Oil's "Big Brutus" crane at work on a dig site (The 160-foot tall coal shovel known as the 1850-B was designed and built by Bucyrus-Erie in Hallowell Kansas, for the Pittsburg & Midway, or P&M Coal Mining Company. It is the only one of its kind ever built. The mining company was purchased by Gulf Oil in 1963, and subsequently went under The Chevron Mining umbrella); Knights of Columbus headquarters building, Connecticut.
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