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Astronaut Scott Carpenter in pressure suit awaiting simulated mission
Project Mercury Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter smiles, in his pressure suit, prior to participating in a simulated mission run at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Astronaut Carpenter had been selected as the prime pilot on the nation's second attempt to put a man into orbit around the earth.
Catalog Date: 09 January 1962
Film Type: 8x10
NASA image: S61-03510