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Astronauts Train At U.S. Naval Development Center: Project Mercury astronauts undergo training which simulates actual space flight launch and reentry, at the United States Navy Aviation Medical Acceleration laboratory at the U.S. Naval Air Development Centre, at Johnsville, Pennsylvania. Dynamic simulation of space flight involves use of a human centrifuge with gondola in which the Astronaut rides. A moulded styrofoam plastic acceleration couch in the gondola helps protect and stabilize the future spaceman. Photographs of this National Aeronautics and space August 17-27 1959. Project Mercury is designed to accomplish the United States first orbital space flight Photo Shows: Ready for flight inside the Gondola is astronaut Allen Bartlett Shepard, Jr of East Derry, New Hampshire, He Grips finger tip controls of the simulated space vehicle
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