Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Johnson Space Center Collection
Title:
Crew of the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress procedures
Description:
Prime crew for the first manned Apollo mission relax in a life raft during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico with a full scale boilerplate model of their spacecraft. Left to right, are Astronauts Roger B. Chaffee, pilot, Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot, and Edward H. White II (facing camera), senior pilot. In background is the "Duchess", a yacht owned by La Porte businessman Paul Barkley and provided by him as a press boat for newsmen covering the training.
Date Taken:
1966-10-27
Program:
Apollo
Mission:
Apollo I
Subject Terms:
ASTRONAUTS
Subject Terms:
FLIGHT
Subject Terms:
PROJECT
Subject Terms:
SPACECRAFT
Subject Terms:
WATER
Subject Terms:
LANDING
Subject Terms:
APOLLO
Subject Terms:
MEXICO
Subject Terms:
ASTRONAUT
Subject Terms:
TRAINING
Subject Terms:
GULF
Subject Terms:
OF
Subject Terms:
SIMULATION
Subject Terms:
EGRESS
Subject Terms:
LIFE
Subject Terms:
RAFTS
Subject Terms:
MODELS
Subject Terms:
SURVIVAL
Subject Terms:
1
facet_who:
Roger B. Chaffee
facet_where:
Gulf of Mexico
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Photo ID:
S66-58597
Film Type:
35mm
UID:
SPD-JSC-S66-58597
original url:
http://images.jsc.n…
Image ID:
136985
Resolution Size:
3
Format:
JPEG
Media Type:
Image
File Name:
S66-58597.jpg
Width:
640
Height:
480

Crew of the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress procedures