NASA Photo ID: S61-02385 File Name: 10073533.jpg
Film Type: 8x10 Date Taken: 07/05/61
Title: Astronaut Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island
Description:
Astronaut Alan Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by
Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (right) and Donald Slayton (left) and
also by Keith Lindell (between Shepard and Grissom) after the first
American suborbital flight. He will participate in a press conference with
Grissom and Slayton.
Subject terms:
ASTRONAUTS
CONFERENCES
MERCURY MR-3 FLIGHT
MERCURY PROJECT
NEWS MEDIA
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