Virgil Ivan Grissom (left) and R. Bowling Barnes (right)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1961
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-2116
left to right: U.S. astronaut Virgil Ivan Grissom (1926-1967) and R. Bowling Barnes, President of Barnes Engineering Company. Grissom was visiting the firm, which was producing infrared stabilization devices for the NASA Project Mercury spacecraft. Later that year, Grissom piloted "Liberty Bell 7" on the second Project Mercury flight (July 21, 1961).
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-2116
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1961
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-2116]
Gelatin silver prints