Setup for Project Mercury capsule escape tower engine tests in the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at NASA Glenn Research Center (then NASA Lewis), 1960.
Setup for Project Mercury capsule escape tower engine tests in the Altitude Wind Tunnel (AWT) at NASA Glenn Research Center (then NASA Lewis), 1960. Mercury used the tunnel’s vast interior for escape capsule separation tests and astronaut disorientation tests in its Multi-Axis Space-Test Inertia Facility or MASTIF.
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