NASA Photo ID: 62-MA8-146         File Name: 10073726.jpg

Film Type: 8x10 b&w               Date Taken: 10/05/62

Title: Astronaut Walter Schirra is assisted into his Sigma 7 spacecraft

Description:

Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8)  earth
orbital space flight, is assisted by back-up pilot L. Gordon Cooper and 
NASA engineers into his Sigma 7 spacecraft for the begining of the MA-8 
mission.