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Topic: Airman Donald Farrell's 1958 chamber test
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cfreeze79
Member Posts: 455
From: Herndon, VA, USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 01-06-2015 01:32 AM
   
Anyone know the whereabouts of then-Airman 1st Class Donald Farrell?In February 1958, the 23-year-old airman from the Bronx was locked in a chamber with an artificial atmosphere at the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field in Texas for seven days, long enough to simulate a moon flight. The New York Times pronounced him "in one sense, the first 'space traveler.'" Here is a video of his visit to "What's My Line?": | |
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