John H. Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, runs through a training exercise in the Mercury Procedures Trainer simulator at the Space Task Group, Langley Field, Virginia.
John H. Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven Astronauts, runs through a training exercise in the Mercury Procedures Trainer at the Space Task Group, Langley Field, Virginia. This link-type spacecraft simulator allowed the astronaut the practice of both normal and emergency modes of systems operations.
Taken in 1960. Within two years of this image being taken, Glenn would become the first American to orbit the Earth.
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Image Credit: NASA