Recovery - Mercury Astronaut Virgil Grissom - End - Mercury-Reddstone (MR)-4 Mission
S61-02819 (21 July 1961) --- A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter retrieves astronaut Virgil I. Grissom from the Atlantic Ocean following the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) spaceflight. Grissom's "Liberty Bell" Mercury spacecraft sank to the bottom of the ocean and was not recovered. Photo credit: NASA
- Date
- 1961-07-27
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- N/A
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- JSC
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Recovery - Mercury Astronaut Virgil Grissom - End - Mercury-Reddstone (MR)-4 Mission" (1961-07-27). NASA/JSC/N/A. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/S61-02819Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 13396.
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