Full Description: The NACA Lewis Research Center Softball Team of 1952.
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Description: Joe Walker in a pressure suit beside the X-1E at the NASA High-Speed Flight Station, Edwards, California. The dice and "Little Joe" are prominently displayed under the cockpit area. (Little Joe is a dice players slang term for two deuces.) Walker is shown in the photo wearing an early Air Force partial pressure suit. This protected the pilot if cockpit pressure was lost above 50,000 feet. Similar suits were used in such aircraft as B-47s, B-52s, F-104s, U-2s, and the X-2 and D-558-II research aircraft. Five years later, Walker reached 354,200 feet in the X-15. Similar artwork - reading "Little Joe the II" - was applied for the record flight. These cases are two of the few times that research aircraft carried such nose art.
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Image Number: E-3361
Date: January 27, 1958
Tags: Aviation Aerospace Rocket Plane National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA X-Plane Bell Aircraft Bell Bell X-1 Bell X-1E X-1 X-1E Experimental Flight Test Pilot Joe Walker Walker Pressure Suit T-1 Partial Pressure Suit National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA 1958
Full Description: Astronaut Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. The MA-8 (Mercury-Atlas) mission with Sigma 7 spacecraft was the third marned orbital flight by the United States, and made the six orbits in 9-1/4 hours.
Born March 12, 1923 in Hackensack, NJ, Schirra passed away on May 3, 2007.
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Image Number: SPD-MARSH-8892072
Date: 1959
Full Description: Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, Jr., one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. The MA-9 mission, boosted by the Mercury-Atlas launch vehicle, was the last flight of the Mercury Project. The Faith 7 spacecraft orbited the Earth 22 times in 1-1/2 days.
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Image Number: SPD-MARSH-8772556
Date: May 1963
Description: The seven original Mercury astronauts participate in U.S. Air Force survival training exercises at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada. Pictured from left to right are: L. Gordon Cooper, M. Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter Schirra and Donald K. Slayton. Portions of their clothing have been fashioned from parachute material, and all have grown beards from their time in the wilderness. The purpose of this training was to prepare astronauts in the event of an emergency or faulty landing in a remote area. Image credit: NASA
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Image Number: s88-31375
Date: July 1960