RON DUPAS COLLECTION
No. 832. McDonnell Mercury NASA "Liberty Bell"
Photograph from NASA, taken at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 1961
Photo No. 61-MR4-28
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"ENTERS SPACECRAFT - Project Mercury Astronaut Virgil I. 'Gus'
Grissom enters the hatch of a Mercury Redstone space vehicle awaiting
launch at Cape Canaveral. Astronaut Grissom is participating
in a mission simulation for NASA's second manned suborbital space
flight. The Mercury spacecraft has been named the 'Liberty Bell' by
the mission pilot." |