Fifty Years Ago: Friendship 7

[beamjockey]

America cheered. Here's how Boris Artzybasheff celebrated John Glenn's three orbits around the Earth.



Here Glenn, on left, helps an unidentified NASA technician invert Wally Schirra, a fellow Project Mercury astronaut. (During training in a pool, water had entered his modified Goodrich Mark IV pressure suit.)

Edited to add: Collectspace offers an interesting article on the secret space stamp of 1962.

Comments

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Hey... at least there still IS a Time magazine.

(For however long that's going to last.)

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope it will last. A friend of mine works there, though not in the cover department. Come to think of it, he was responsible for getting my picture into an advertising section in the July 19, 1999 Newsweek, an issue many people looked at because of the cover showing soccer player Brandi Chastain in her sports bra.