The Mercury Seven were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter.
The Mercury Seven were Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter.
That’s fairly close actually! Their suits were still be manufactured and the all the boots weren’t finished for the photo shoot. These space suits were custom made to fit each astronaut after all. So someone ran to the hardware store the day of and picked up some boots and silver spray paint to make it work. I feel like they should’ve had them stand in the back to help hide how different they were.
wow, seems like I probably heard that story before and internalized without realizing, although I would love to believe I guessed correctly.
Super cool piece of history, its easy to forget often people are just flying by the seat of their pants despite the way history and photographs make it look / feel otherwise.
Maybe the people in back had even less of their suit ready. It’s awfully dark back there for them to be wearing shiny pants.