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Gus Grissom Preparing for Mercury Redstone 4 Mission – July 1961

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Oct 01, 2008
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Gus Grissom wearing silver Mercury spacesuit, seated while technician checks one of the gloves
Donning a spacesuit for the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission, astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom chats with spaceflight equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt in the personal equipment room of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Donning a spacesuit for the Mercury-Redstone 4 mission, astronaut Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom chats with spaceflight equipment specialist Joseph W. Schmidt in the personal equipment room of Hangar S at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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