NASA Photo ID: S62-01355          File Name: 10073681.jpg

Film Type: 4x5 b&w                Date Taken: 04/18/62

Title: Astronauts Scott Carpenter and Walter Schirra completes water egress test

Description:

Project Mercury Astronauts M. Scott Carpenter, prime pilot of the 
Mercury-Atlas 7, prepares to go through a water egress test. Astronaut 
Walter M. Schirra (back to camera), the backup MA-7 pilot is also present. 
Carpenter and Schirra are in the Mercury pressure suit, without the helmet. 
Behind them is an inflated life raft.