Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini by John Bisney J. L. Pickering

Spaceshots and Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini by John Bisney J. L. Pickering

Author:John Bisney,J. L. Pickering
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2015-04-10T04:00:00+00:00


Suit tech Joe Schmitt reaches into a pocket on White’s pressure suit on launch morning in the suiting trailer at LC-16. Astronaut Office chief Alan Shepard (center) had been named to command Gemini 3 before an inner ear disorder took him off flight status in 1964.

McDivitt followed by White (shaking hands with Shepard) on launch day leave the suiting trailer to board the transfer van for the short trip to LC-19. Both wear the new G4C pressure suits, which included additional layers of insulation and micrometeoroid protection since the cabin would be opened in flight for White’s EVA. Fortune Homes Corp. of Sarasota, Florida, made the suiting trailer. Technicolor photographer Ed Thomas is at left.



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