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Mercury-Atlas 8
Astronaut Walter Schirra to enter centrifuge during training for space flight

Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. prepares to enter gondola of centrifuge which is used to test gravitational stress on astronauts training for space flight. Schirra became the pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 six-orbit space mission.



Catalog Date: 01 January 1960
Film Type: 8x10
NASA image: G60-02461


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