NASA Photo ID: S61-03510          File Name: 10073684.jpg

Film Type: 8x10 b&w               Date Taken: 09/01/62

Title: Astronaut Scott Carpenter in pressure suit awaiting simulated mission

Description:

Project Mercury Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter smiles, in his pressure suit, 
prior to participating in a simulated mission run at Cape Canaveral,
Florida.  Astronaut Carpenter had been selected as the prime pilot on the
nation's  second attempt to put a man into orbit around the earth.