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

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Amazing that it's been fifty years. I'm much too young to be this damn old.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

If that was today, the cover would be "Our Love Affair With Houseplants!!"

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Just because: