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Author	Topic: KSCVC: Gordon Cooper, Dave Scott spacesuits
4allmankind Member Posts: 1043 From: Dallas Registered: Jan 2004	posted 10-27-2010 05:53 PM Does anyone know what the Gordon Cooper Mercury suit and Dave Scott Gemini suit on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Debus facility actually are? Are those back-up suits, or possibly flown? If memory serves correct, the signage is not clear on those exhibits.
Kocmoc Member Posts: 33 From: Washington, DC USA Registered: May 2005	posted 11-01-2010 01:53 PM The Cooper suit is a Mercury Training suit, on loan from the Air and Space Museum. The Scott suit is not a Gemini suit, but an A1-C, also on loan from NASM. Cathy Lewis ------------------ Cathleen S. Lewis
MarylandSpace Member Posts: 1336 From: Registered: Aug 2002	posted 11-01-2010 03:51 PM I used to enjoy looking at the Cooper suit up close and personal at the Educational Resource Center at KSC until someone "rediscovered" it.

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