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Mercury astronauts (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/pics@lemmy.world

The Mercury Seven were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter.

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 9 points 7 months ago

Crazy to think how quickly they had to take that photo as their space suits melted right off of them within seconds.

Also crazy to think that it took NASA seven months to realize that aluminum-coated nylon was a far better choice for space suit material.