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Al Shepard practices climbing out the neck of a Project Mercury spacecraft mockup during training for his suborbital flight.
Astronauts practised this alternative method of exiting the craft in both pools and the open sea. LIFE magazine shot.
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MERCURYegressETC0001
Al Shepard practices climbing out the neck of a Project Mercury spacecraft mockup during training for his suborbital flight.
Astronauts practised this alternative method of exiting the craft in both pools and the open sea. LIFE magazine shot.
9,304
views
71
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comments
Uploaded on September 8, 2016
Taken on September 7, 2016