NASA Photo ID: S66-51581 File Name: 10074781.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 06/01/66
Title: Crew of the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress procedures
Description:
Prime crew for the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress
procedures with full scale boilerplate model of their spacecraft. In the
water at right is Astronaut Edward H. White (foreground) and Astronaut
Roger B. Chaffee. In raft near the spacecraft is Astronaut Virgil I.
Grissom. NASA swimmers are in the water to assist in the practice session
that took place at Ellington AFB, near the Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston.
Subject terms:
APOLLO 1 FLIGHT
APOLLO PROJECT
APOLLO SPACECRAFT
ASTRONAUT TRAINING
ASTRONAUTS
EGRESS
FACILITIES
LIFE RAFTS
MODELS
SIMULATION
SURVIVAL
TEXAS
WATER LANDING
