The Fun Part of Astronaut Training

Boa constrictors for lunch; Parachutes for pajamas

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

In the early days of the US space program, scientists were concerned that astronauts’ space capsules may not come back to Earth where they were expected but would instead land in remote places where their im…