Photo of the Day

No. 382

Mercury astronauts Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra and Deke Slayton, 1960.

In the early days, NASA worried that a space capsule might stray off-course during re-entry and land in a remote place where the astronaut couldn’t be immediately extracted.

So, astronauts were sent to military survival training …