NASA Photo ID: G60-02461          File Name: 10073717.jpg

Film Type: 8x10 b&w               Date Taken: 01/01/60

Title: Astronaut Walter Schirra to enter centrifuge during training for space flight

Description:

Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. prepares to enter gondola of centrifuge
which  is used to test gravitational stress on astronauts training for
space flight.  Schirra became the pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 six-orbit
space mission.