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28 07 09
Oddities From NASA’s Massive Image Archive “No, it’s not Lawrence of Arabia’s troop of bodyguards. The seven original Mercury astronauts used parachute pieces to make hats and clothes during a 1960 training exercise in the Nevada desert. The idea was to prepare the men to survive in the event of an emergency landing in the wilderness. Pictured here, from left to right, at Stead Air Force Base: Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra and Donald Slayton.” (via wired.com)

Oddities From NASA’s Massive Image Archive

“No, it’s not Lawrence of Arabia’s troop of bodyguards. The seven original Mercury astronauts used parachute pieces to make hats and clothes during a 1960 training exercise in the Nevada desert. The idea was to prepare the men to survive in the event of an emergency landing in the wilderness. Pictured here, from left to right, at Stead Air Force Base: Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra and Donald Slayton.” (via wired.com)

  1. leilanilujan reblogged this from johncabrera and added:
    i feel like they probably had more fun than they were supposed to,
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