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Topic: Photo of the week 934 (September 17, 2022)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3613
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 09-16-2022 12:49 PM
   
 Astronaut Alan Shepard poses with a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft at Launch Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral during the countdown for the Big Joe launch on September 9, 1959. |
Steven Kaplan
Member Posts: 156
From: New Jersey
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 09-16-2022 04:05 PM
Ed, what a wonderful early Mercury photo, one I am sure most of us have never seen. Thanks you for these weekly glimpses back into the history of manned space flight |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1653
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 09-16-2022 04:21 PM
One has to wonder if, at this early date, somewhere in his mind he was thinking "Wait one (expletive) minute! I volunteered to ride in one of THESE things???"  |
oly
Member Posts: 1417
From: Perth, Western Australia
Registered: Apr 2015
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posted 09-16-2022 09:02 PM
Ed, Thanks once again for posting another great image.This shot clearly shows just how small the Mercury spacecraft is. Most photographs don't tell this part of the story so easily. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1929
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 09-17-2022 10:09 AM
Basically a metal suit. |
Ian Limbrey
Member Posts: 174
From: England
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 09-17-2022 01:13 PM
The six astronauts who flew these Mercury missions in such a small capsule obviously had the 'Right Stuff'! |
OV-105
Member Posts: 887
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 09-17-2022 08:28 PM
A little bit bigger than the MMU from the 1984 shuttle fights. Lol |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1381
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 09-17-2022 09:36 PM
You don't get into it, you put it on. |
Spacepsycho
Member Posts: 885
From: Huntington Beach, Calif.
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 09-17-2022 10:57 PM
It looks like Scott Carpenter on the right side of the boilerplate (partially obscured by the light" looking inside the hatch. |
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